It’s not if you Tweet, Like, and Share. It’s if you’re Sweet, Polite, and Care.

To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update.

The use of social media makes users self-focused, which in turn creates loneliness and causes people to blame one another in homes and public places which used to be friendly and lively.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.

F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused.

The Social Networking Netiquette Loop: Read, share, like, and repeat.