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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Often
Prefer
Social
Lessons
Given
Beings
Human
Choice
Humans
Strange
Media
Alone
Anthropological
Choices
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