Antisocial Media

Antisocial Media By Mark D. Stucky I remember the old days when people only had friends they’d actually met in person, before “social media” seduced us, and people became less social, sitting alone and anonymous, insulting strangers and neighbors, tweeting threats and riotous rants, multiplying misinformation, damaging decency and democracy. Antisocial media betrays us and the original vision of joining virtual hands and singing “Kum Ba Yah.” Did media change our culture by clouding minds and hearts? Or by unleashing demons lurking among us all along? (See also my poems "The Art of the Devilish Deal," "Tweeting the Truth in Love," "Hate Vacuuming?" and “What Would Jesus Tweet?") (Image by geralt on Pixabay.com.)