The idea of eating at a bunch of Waffle Houses in order to make social commentary on the South and America sounds like an outlandish thesis topic for that dude who's been getting his PhD for 12 years now. So naturally I loved this.
Several years ago I realized that checking Facebook was more annoying than rewarding and quit using it. I then moved onto Twitter and I eventually found that the endless outrage cycle is equally taxing. I took all social media apps off my phone and only use them on my desktop now.
Social media removes people from the present oftentimes to our detriment. We didn't evolve to always be connected.
While I'm not much of a fan of social media overall, I'm not sure I agree with your last point. There's lots of evidence to suggest that a huge amount of human evolution rests on social connection. Without it, we are way less healthy, from an empirical standpoint. The issue with"social" media is that it gives us some neurological rewards but doesn't really make us feel less lonely; and sometimes may increase our feelings of isolation if we're not really connecting, just seeing superficial information or, as is increasingly the case, information that isn't social at all (news or other forwarded content).
