To put this into prospective....Facebook came along in 2004, and probably didn't become a big deal until 2008. Twitter? It came along in 2006, and became a big deal in 2008's election cycle.
To be honest, if you wanted news prior to 2008....you watched cable TV and got a dose of radio news on the way to work, or returning home each night. A lot of people forget that era before FB and Twitter.
We existed fairly well...without either App, and to a great extent.....the news received didn't really make itself into a big deal.
If both Twitter and FB went away tomorrow....would it radically change things? I'm not sure about that. We might go back to the local newspapers, and stress would likely go down a notch or two.
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