Before Social Media

Those under 50 years of age have probably never used one of these, and young people are even unlikely to know what it is.

Until the advent of the Internet in the mid-1990s, along with email (the “killer” app), the telephone was virtually the only way people communicated with one another electronically.

Today’s social media has changed all that, yet some say that the change has been a net negative, the desocialization of our children and the spreading of disinformation.