Social Media Rehab

I was on Twitter tonight and saw someone tweeting about needing social media rehab.

It got me to thinking. Back in the 1930’s nobody really realized that smoking was bad for us and society went through a era when smoking was sexy. Everybody wanted to be seen as a smoker. Then as the decades passed and people began to die from cancer we figured it out. Smoking was bad. By the time we caught on people were dead and others were hooked.

So today I am contemplating. Could there be some evil consequences to Tweeting? Is the next generation going to be sterile from holding laptops on their laps? Will we burn our retinas out of our heads? Will Facebook gossip become a social media disease? Or perhaps we will form a mutation as our hands glue themselves to our phones from holding it and texting too much.

With this thought I went to my instant knowledge base that is now being referred to by professionals everywhere to see what the great god of google had to say about the subject of social media diseases. I found how one guy got a new kidney and a teenager was using YouTube to share her new hair after having lost it to an autoimmune disease. There were several great stories about how social media is being used to assist a variety of people and along the right side were some great fun things about cats and dogs too! My own ADHD kicked in and I forgot my quest for a few minutes while I had a good laugh, and laughter is good medicine, so probably not time lost.

Next I changed my query and typed “social media rehab.” As it often happens I had originally used the wrong search words. This time I discovered there are actually real social media addicts and centers to treat them. Who knew?

So will I need social media rehab later? Well if an electronic pulse takes out my new found source of entertainment and I lose it all in one night as aliens descend upon us I may grieve the loss of Facebook and miss all of my Forbes updates from LinkedIn, but I am not likely to need rehab. Besides I will be too busy ducking the culling beams coming from the spaceships. I should be just fine overall. I think for now I will keep watching crazy animal videos for entertainment and keep clicking on the share button when I find something that is particularly amusing…

Although I may need to question next why I am so fascinated with apocalyptic disasters. I have definitely seen way too many zombie and space movies…

But that is a question for another day.

Always Loyal2U,

Kerry George