If people really think it's important to do all that tweeting, maybe they need to look in the mirror and re-evaluate where the hell they are going in life, especially when [if at all possible] they consider that there's more to life than followers and blue check marks. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all those big tech companies have contributed heartily to the disintegration of our society and made us slaves to our phones, where information is right at our fingertips and the latest "breaking news" is right around the corner. It's an addiction, more powerful than any drug. "Look at me, look at me, I think so-and-so is a prick and I am more important than they are!"

Not that this means a whole hell of a lot, but I tell my students regularly when they check their phones 200 times a day that 40 years ago when I served in the Navy, going to school and learning how to operate nuclear reactors on ships, I was able to become qualified top watch on a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, one of the most powerful killing machines ever devised, and was able to do that all without one single cell phone [granted, they hadn't been invented yet, but you get the point]. There is life outside of social media. You just have to look for it. Remember what Mark Twain said: "I am not that important that I always have to be near a phone." So true, even more than a hundred years later.