Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

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

The information superhighway is littered with so much roadkill.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.