> Ideally, laws would be written such that the only thing that could fill that gap would be real life social interaction.

I would love to hear a proposal around this. As an immigrant in the US, “social media” is my connection not only to people back home but also to my friends from junior high, high school, and college.

> Social media is, ipso facto, a bad thing.

It would be great if you could define what is social media.

Are chat threads social media? What about iMessage groups? What about various online? What about Digg / Reddit / 4chan?