66. Are Facebook . . . Twitter . . . Any Social Media Necessary?

Television continues to poke fun at social media. Consider the following:

• Max (Kat Dennings), one of the two stars of the television show Two Broke Girls, said in the season opener in October 2012: “Twitter is stupid. And Instagram is Twitter for people who can’t read.”

• Betty White hosted Saturday Night Live in 2010 for the first time, thanks to fan-page demand on Facebook that went viral. During her opening monologue on SNL, White thanked Facebook as only she could: “I really have to thank Facebook,” the longtime—and long-lived—television star told her audience. “When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host SNL, I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do ...

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