While my work has benefitted from access to social media because it is essential

While my work has benefitted from access to social media because it is essentially a ‘free’ research laboratory for human behavior, my quality of life has been substantially harmed by it – just as I believe most everyone’s has. Because we are daily removed from our networks of people similar to us, and confronted with the vox populi who are not. And we find most of mankind lacking. And no small fraction of it depressing.