Social media has been around since 1997, however, it became popular around 2003 to 2005. Nowadays, social media has been incorporated into the millennial generation and their lives mainly revolve around it. In Peggy Orenstein’s “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” she asserts social media has overtaken people’s lives through personal and social reality. Orenstein believes social media wastes people’s time, causes people be unable to identify between their personal and private lives, and ruins relationships. Orenstein starts off her article about a morning with her daughter and finds herself thinking about sharing the moment on Twitter. She is relatively “late to Twitter” but was pressured into social media in efforts to increase