Is social media a valuable tool? I wonder. I remember feeling very fulfilled and happy with my life prior to it. I had no overriding curiosity to catch up with people who drifted out of my life years ago. No real interest in what people were doing behind closed doors. I got my news from newspapers and journals. I felt informed and educated on the basic things happening in the world and my own community. What has social media given us? Lots of access to an infinity of stupid opinions, mostly. I feel neither more educated or fulfilled with it. The young people don't know any better but the rest of us do. And we let it happen and encourage it to keep happening... The disassociation with our world, our community, and ourselves. Weird.