Are the High Leverage People or the VCS and the Tech Bros?

If you're fully up to speed on the latest news and gossip, your definy a tebro. The real people get you done out there are wonderfully blissfully ignorant. I think i've been on twitterlike actively for a year or so, and i don't know that i'm better for it. It's very easy to just not really remember the people that are actually around me in my local community. So i i do sort of, is there a way to balance being very on line, being a member of this twitter community, and still keep like, a good grasp on the real?