Why did we take away waiting? Waiting is what kept us from blowing up at others the instant we thought we knew we should be mad about something. Waiting kept us from immediately sharing photographs that people could never un-see and that weren’t ours to share in the first place. Waiting afforded us the opportunity to consider the profound effect our words could have on someone else’s well-being. Taking away waiting, together with the not-anywhere-near-fully-developed brains of teenagers, may well have been its own tiny version of an apocalypse.