Cold Turkey By Hank Silverberg I did it. I stayed away from social media for an entire week! Some of you, or at least those over 50, might not think that’s a big deal, but in today’s world, for someone who has worked in “the media” for 40 years, it is. The experiment began right after I filed my blog last week. It was inspired after I had a stupid argument on Facebook with an old friend which left him very angry and me very frustrated. The subject of the argument is irrelevant. In fact, I am still not sure what we were arguing about. So, I decided it was time to go cold turkey on social media. For seven whole days I did not read my Facebook newsfeed or post anything. I did not read tweets, retweet or post anything there either, and I avoided LinkedIn too, even though I need it to help evaluate how many people actually read this blog. I went back to the way it was in the "old days," watching two national news broadcasts (CBS and NBC) and avoiding cable n