This isn't a voluntary change.  It doesn't matter if you aren't connected when nearly everyone else is.  Moreover, we can already see the results of this new wiring.  The most obvious is the constant drumbeat of political chaos all around us.  Social networking is is shattering the fictive kinship (our center of gravity) that allows us to operate as a cohesive country. 

Not only that, it has created the opportunity for new forms of authoritarianism to emerge online