Social media makes me furious, anxious and deeply unhappy – here's why I would never give it up
telegraph.co.ukincredibly exciting.While still reeling at such mind-blowing innovations as websites and email, I discovered that you could use something called Telnet to exchange messages in real-time with other people, and I showed my partner, Erika, how to do this.
She was as amazed as I was, and I left her to it. A couple of days later I asked her whether she’d been back online to that server where you could converse with total strangers. ‘No,’ she said. ‘They were all idiots.’I often think about her prescient comment.
The way we use the internet has changed radically over the last 25 years, but the most significant difference is the way disparate groups of people have been brought together to create new and often difficult social dynamics.
Social media initially connected us to our friends, before moving on to our friends’ friends, strangers with similar interests, celebrities and ultimately businesses, all thirsty for attention.
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