but early-on, had not the equipment to play, though in hindsight, that's no real excuse. Clearly too, as you ably focus: the mental time-share fallacy had not erupted; Things Take Time grooks had been born, there was time to reflect, edit, really: to become edjumacated at your-own-rate.

Seeds of FB et al? I guess so, but now Everything is Slick, demographically algorithmed-unto-Death and Big-$$ is the only actual common denominator for the whole fucking *egregore

* an occult concept representing a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme.

(Love the 'occult' slot:) an oft denigrating quip for summarily-dismissing disciplines by which it may be discerned how psychological habits Rule-over all that intellectual rationalization: that which forms the bases of most 'Laws' and of all propaganda, so effective in our fledgling conceited-while-ignorant species.
Gurdjieff, Ouspensky used that word a lot, in illustrating many abstruse relationships as account for our sleep-walking through a pedestrian liff, most of us..
[+] Now that obscure word has made it into Wikipedia! ... progress?

Yeah, Progress.. that Sweet and undefinable ... like the pineapple concept: also pretty well eviscerated by the incomparable Piet Hein of Denmark: RIP, fair debunker of bloviators every-when.