Huffpost Fifty   Melissa T. Shultz Headshot  Could You Live
Without Facebook?  Posted: Updated:  A few weeks ago, after
waking in the middle of the night to do what middle-aged people
wake up in the middle of the night to do, I checked my email and
texts before going back to bed. There in the dark, while my
husband slept, it occurred to me that I'd taken multi-tasking to
new heights.  I had become the very subject of an article I read
online about technology rewiring our brains -- how the constant
stimulation of email, texts, and Internet searches is the
equivalent of an addictive high, which can only lead to a crash
of epic proportions. I spent the rest of the night tossing and
turning, thinking about how I was contributing to a society that
would soon need to attend regular AA-type meetings for
technoholism, all of us suffering from short-attention spans and
an insatiable need to be connected, even when in a dream-like
state. What kind of role model was I?  Maybe, when it comes to
new communications technol