Katherine Cross is a widely published critic and scholar. Her new book "Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix" is available now from Little Puss Press.
The solipsism of social media rests on the false promise of everything being yours: your feed, your network, your friends, customisable and uniquely, ineffably you.
Like radiation, social media is invisible scientific effluence that leaves us both more knowledgeable and more ignorant of the causes of our own afflictions than ever
