There’s an American idiom as ingrained in our national identity as the Constitution: “social media is cultural heroin.” You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again. It’s a helpful metaphor but it makes people focus on the negative. We worry about the track marks, dependence, hepatitis, and overdoses and entirely ignore two major parts of heroin: the high and the community. This is true of social media discourse, as well, yet new studies show that social media is positive