Has social networking been a net-positive for the world?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I swear y’all would be opposed to the printing press if you were alive back then. You could make a meme thread from this.

The paranoia about witchcraft and resulting killing of "suspected witches" was stirred up thanks to the printing press. It existed before, but nothing like it did after the publication of certain works purporting to be authoritative on the subject.