Social media is pretty cool. I met my wife, a ton of business contacts, and most of my best friends through social media, so I'm probably an outlier case in jus

Social media is pretty cool. I met my wife, a ton of business contacts, and most of my best friends through social media, so I'm probably an outlier case in just how positive an impact it had on my life. But it was a very very strong positive indeed, and contributed greatly to my agreeing with patio11 about the internet being the caps-G caps-dub Great Work of humanity. I don't feel particularly bad that my children likely won't have the same social media experience that I have. They'll probably have a much better one, refined by a few extra decades of free market practices figuring out better ways of getting people what they really want it out of it. It's entirely possible that in a decade or so meeting people first online, then irl will be much more common than it is today. I don't think that's a bad thing in the slightest.