Reader's Digest UK

The Social Network

Olly Mann presents Four Thought for BBC Radio 4, and the podcasts The Modern Mann, The Week Unwrapped and The Retrospectors

DO YOU REMEMBER when social media felt good? When Friends Reunited connected you back to your high school sweetheart… Or when you posted a song to MySpace, a giddy thrill akin to decorating your teenage bedroom… Or when Instagram filters miraculously elevated your smudgy camera roll snaps to a (semi) professional standard? It was fun!

Then, you got wise to all that. Fake news. Targeted advertising. Echo chambers. The outrage

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