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Letter: Antisocial view

Published 23 May 2012

From Stuart Leslie

Jim Giles imagines he is a curmudgeon because he withholds information from Facebook (28 April, p 40). I go further and do without social media. I just see the obsession with them as wholly trivial and time-wasting, and based mostly on a need to conform and not feel left out of something. In many people, use of these media seems to be an uncontrollable addiction and obsession.

Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia

Issue no. 2866 published 26 May 2012

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