Social Media: The Great Amplifier

It’s loud, proud, and attracting one hell of a crowd, but has social media actually changed us?

Sophie Sleeman
Sep 5, 2018 · 8 min read
From ‘Antisocial’ — a series by Mike Campau

As a child of 2001, I’ve grown up alongside the internet. In fact, me and Wikipedia share a birth year. And as I started to make my first friends, Facebook was born. While I was playing dress-up and dinosaurs at four, Youtube arrived — also…

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A sixteen-year old fumbling through life with a pen and a camera. Part-time explorer; find me up a tree somewhere. Or, alternatively, gmail me @sophiesleeman11

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