Social media always gave me a bracing sense of despair and suffocation, and I rarely engaged with it. I planned to go on Twitter when Sean Connery died and post: ‘They’ve shaken him and he’s not stirred’, but that was it. I remembered Marina saying, ‘It helps me with my loneliness. After a few hours on there, I think “Thank fuck I’m alone.”’ One problem is that there’s nothing more embarrassing than hearing someone say something that sounds clever to them. Then there was the way that people carefully faked everything about themselves online but chose to share their actual political opinions –
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