“ Addicted to a medium in which every fleeting thought seems worthy of recording and sharing with everyone, we have stopped filtering ourselves. He says the result is disinhibition, a psychological term that describes a lack of restraint and an inability to edit our thoughts. In 150 years of electronic messaging, the problem has grown exponentially worse. In 1844, the world’s first telegram sped from Baltimore to Washington carrying the words: ”What hath God wrought?” By contrast in 1971, the first email exchange to feature the @ symbol was a meaningless jumble of letters and numbers.