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Released: December 29, 2012
Think you’re giving up social media? Think again.
Source: Katherine Boyle - The Washington Post
Deleting yourself — or what the most morbid among us call “digital suicide” — is the attempt to go off the grid, to grab control of your persona, time or sanity. The departure is often announced with confident, dramatic flourish. But experts say that more often than not, deserters sulk back to newsfeeds and streams, proving: No, we could never be through with Facebook or Twitter, just as Ella could never be through with love.
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