OLD AND BUSTED: “We Are All Socialists Now.”

The New Hotness? We Are All Pierre Delecto Now.

This is the damage Twitter hath done. It is a time suck, irresistible even to those with the least to gain. Romney’s sad, secret account reveals something about Twitter’s strategic reliance on human nature: we all just want to be heard, and social media affords us that catharsis. So powerful is this catharsis, even Mitt Romney, a man with a Senate office and the means to build a car elevator, chases its fleeting satisfaction.

Pierre Delecto is holding a mirror up to the rest of us. Social media brings out the worst in everyone, and that outcome is fundamental to its design. We’re wasting so much time.

Somebody really needs to write a book about the virus-like nature of social media.