Social media is a major change in the collective consciousness of humanity. The speed of communication, universality of common knowledge, and distributed nature of the internet allows for a new kind of existence. This alone means social media and the internet technologies deserve profound consideration.

We are changing as a species. Our behavior has fundamentally shifted as information technologies have advanced, and in turn the way we think about ourselves, other people, and reality itself has shifted with it. We are becoming something new.

Philosophy is the study of certain problems or issues. While one can look at any subject philosophically, philosophy in general discusses:

1. Ontology - The study of what exists.


2. Metaphysics - The study of how what exists works.


3. Epistemology - The study of what and how we can know.


4. Logic - The study of how to reason.


5. Ethics - The study of what to do about all of this.