When you're in a relationship, you want to know what's on your partner's mind. This is what social media offers us, as partners in humanity: licensed eavesdropping.
The high side is the privilege offered us for connection, understanding & the answers we might have for each other.
The danger, of course, is if we do not use it judiciously, we risk interrupting our own conversations with ourselves & cultivating a sort of mass attention deficit... http://huff.to/14p2Ug8
Polish satirical cartoonist, Pawel Kuczynski (whose art is featured, here) is good at illustrating the isolating and destructive side of social media.
To view more of his culturally-engaged and cautionary work, please, visit his website