How’s your social life? Is social media time suck or time well spent?

For all the good ascribed to Twitter and the rest, is this time-consuming activity improving things or distracting us from achieving transformative impact?

Published on
July 12, 2018
Last updated
July 13, 2018
John Gill
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#1 Submitted by A-S00024014 on October 6, 2021 - 10:13am
Social media tosses the ‘gatekeeper’ power right back into your very own hands : that’s a good so non negotiable it trumps any of the bad or the ugly. You only then have yourself to blame for un/mis-managing deafening or blindening information blitz. Basil jide fadipe.

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