I don't quite understand: it seems to me there is an infinite stream of news, and everybody has to find a way to extract bits and pieces relevant to them. Soci

I don't quite understand: it seems to me there is an infinite stream of news, and everybody has to find a way to extract bits and pieces relevant to them. Social networks just make it easier to access the news stream, in that sense. But they are not responsible for creating the news, or at least, not in a significant way - as infinite+whatever amount of "news" SN create is still infinite. This just in relation to the article - of course SNs create all kinds of problems, but the amount of information is not really the problem caused by SNs.