OPINION – I grew up in the age of the internet — I couldn’t survive social media as a teenager today

WEST END FINAL

Let me admit something to you. I spent the majority of my adolescence inside. While other kids played team sports or took up hobbies, I spent my evenings and weekends glued to a desktop computer. Shoulders hunched, head bent with monastic devotion, an early adopter of tech neck and blue light-induced eye strain. It taught me a lot, the 2010s internet. How to perfect a cut crease eye shadow. Quick-fix HTML coding. The astrological birth chart details of every single member of The Strokes. You name it, I learnt it.

Truthfully, I wouldn’t take it back for a second…

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