The Literary Obsessive

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27th Feb

27th Feb

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Eleanor Anstruther
Feb 27, 2025
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I watched The Social Dilemma last night, hashtag better late than never, I know, but there it is, when it first came out I didn’t dare. My children were twelve, they were bang in the catchment area of Reddit, Jacobi particularly, was hooked and scrolling and it was scaring the shit out of me. So I did what any decent parent does when faced with the overwhelming challenge of taking their children’s phones away from them and looked the other way.

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