I was having a conversation about this the other day and said that the existence of Twitter most certainly does not make the world a better place. Part of me thinks they should just end the experiment now. However, without Twitter, I fear that our president might start using the the Emergency Alert System to communicate. I’m actually surprised he hasn’t exercised that executive privilege yet. Perhaps he doesn’t know about it.

As for Facebook, it could be so much better than it is. They’ve build a reaction machine that spews “content” for everyone to look at–along with a healthy number of advertisements. I fear that many people look no further than Facebook for their information now, and only the headlines at that.