We are now privy to a spectacular array of communication tools with the potential to connect us all for greater understanding and tolerance. But SA software is counterproductive for open dialog at best, and fundamentally corrosive at worst. It is sure to infuse discord and distrust, much the way the internet is now viewed--isolating us, dividing us into segmented groups--when, at the net's inception, it was supposed to unite the planet. Even more destructive, SA software for SaaS products, like spying on our kids, or when used for marketing to influence elections by insighting ignorant, angry people to elect the second-coming of Hitler, has, and will continue to put even greater distance between us.

I made it with Max last night! OMG! Welcome to womanhood!! How was it/he? And right about now, Mary's mom gets a'notification' on her cell phone that her daughter is texting sexual references, then displays Mary's texts with Shelly upon mom's request. Mom spends the rest of the day at work fuming, conjuring dialog with her daughter for later that evening when they'll be home together. Never did, and she'd told Mary not to see him.