Will utopian connectivity promised by social networks today prove the same broken promise of utopian awareness promised by drugs in the 60s?

Similarly: will excessive SNing - FB, Twitter, etc. - prove in retrospect as damaging as excessive drug use?

Haven’t we all heard about fabled LSD Dude who tripped nonstop for three days and never recovered?

Fact: I knew LSD Dude. Only he was Ecstasy Dude. And three days was really three months. One long summer …

Fact: I knew Ecstasy Dude before AND after. Before: quick, bright, reflective. After: couldn’t put an idea together let alone two sentences.

Sad Fact: He didn’t know he had stopped connecting.

Sadder Fact: He couldn’t remember the who he was by how he thought before he submitted himself to synaptic chemical demolition.

Saddest Fact: Now and then he suspects himself capable of a clarity he robbed himself of.

Ecstasy Dude Quote: “I had this nightmare I needed glasses but none of the glasses I tried worked. Isn’t that weird? I don’t need glasses.”

Question: How much of SN circuity is just another example of pleasure-center short circuitry posing as progress?

Question: Is there now a fabled SN dude who tripped on FB for three months straight and still hasn’t recovered?