Come on. Of course it did. I agree with everything you said about memes and how sites like twitter and others are basically silos or a collection of silos and people just complain and don't offer solutions is absolutely spot on but to say that the internet age has not also had those positive benefits in your previous sentence is too narrowly focused. The same day I read your post I read this one: https://medium.com/the-engage/the-era-of-influencer-monks-in-the-social-media-world-24ff75ca8ef1