Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?

Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.

Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

I was thirty years old and still living by the seat of my pants. I probably should have had my life together a little bit more by then. But the thing was, my friends all had these stressed-out lives, and they came to our place and it felt like we were just living this laid-back, beautiful, no-stress life. We made being poor look fun.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.