Try not to wast too much of your time reading [blogs, facebook, twitter, podcasts, and the like]. "Internet addiction" afflicts adults and teenagers alike. ... Keep it all in perspective. Not all, but most of this "stuff" just becomes noise in the massive global echo chamber. And when there is so much noise out there, it eventually turns into white noise. And white noise, as anyone who goes to sleep with the air conditioner on knows, is a kind of silence. - The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century