Why I Quit Twitter—and Will Again.

WIT & humor; TWITTER (Web resource); SOCIAL media; FACEBOOK (Web resource); MEMORIAL Day; GENERATION Y; CELL phones; SMARTPHONES; LABOR Day

Careers & Employment; Internet & Social Media; Media & Communication

The article presents a humorous explanation for why the author decided to quit using social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook between Memorial Day and Labor Day in 2014, focusing on social media and the author's cell phone use patterns. According to the article, members of Generation X and Generation Y (Millennials) keep their smartphones accessible 22 hours a day. It states that the first thing that 80 percent of Americans do each day after waking up is check their smartphones.