Social media was once a great global conversation. Now it’s just individuals locked into their own private worlds | Tom Whyman

I met the mother of my children on Twitter – and made lasting friendships. But now social media isn’t so social I used to post an awful lot on Twitter. I couldn’t tell you how many times a day exactly – but after discovering the platform in late 2010, I became intoxicated by the feeling that I was able to participate in a sort of global conversation. Here, I felt, was a platform that anyone could join, and on which anyone could be listened to. Twitter seemed to connect people: commentators sp...

By Tom Whyman