What would Benjamin Franklin say about social media?

A fascinating question, and one that requires me to reason by inference from my documented convictions — for I never witnessed such a thing as "social media." But let me try, as a man who spent his life in the business of communication. I was a printer, an editor, a founder of subscription libraries. As I wrote in my Autobiography, those libraries “improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries”. That was ever my aim — to spread useful knowledge broadly, to lift the common mind. Social media, as I understand it described to me, does something similar in reach, and something rather opposite in quality. To put a press in every pocket is a magnificent thing. But a press without an editor, without the discipline of considered thought, is a dangerous instrument. In Poor Richard's Almanac I observed that a slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. Imagine now a slip published instantly to ten thousand strangers before breakfast. My Thirteen Virtues counselled Silence — "speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation." I confess I suspect social media would sorely test that virtue in nearly everyone. The tool itself I would admire. The use most people make of it, I should gently mock.