It wont end until social media ends. Anyone could see this coming from a long way off - nothing but problems. How did the country survive before it? Well enough, thank you very much.
To put this into the perspective it deserves:
From the London Times of 1904 Mark Twain published 18987 Science Fiction Stories that predicted the internet (and how we use it)Funny to think of 1904 as being in the distant future!
In this short story (written at a time when the landline telephone was a new thing), Mark Twain dreamed up an invention called the telelectroscope.
In the story, this telelectroscope used the phone system to support a global network for information sharing (Um, anyone else thinking dial-up?) which would be visible and audible from anywhere. His short story involved people from around the world being able to keep up to date with each others daily deeds, to quote the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues. So, basically, he predicted both the internet and social media way back in 1898 when most people hadnt even heard the sound of a phone ringing.
Very good - thanks. We have a lot of modern day Mark Twains today but they don’t get the recognition they’ve earned because they’re all conservatives!