Going Cold Turkey Social media. Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay. You can’t escape it. Every programme on TV helpfully puts its #suggestedhastag at the bottom of the screen and even David Dimbleby is reminded to mention it during Question Time each week – though I often feel he isn’t quite sure what Twitter is… Every Lent I like to give myself a challenge and this year I decided to quit social media. I’m not a big Facebook-er unless shamelessly self-promoting whatever I happen to be doing in my career but I was feeling that Instagram was beginning to take over my life. I’d love to know the hours I’ve spent scrolling, staring vacuously at my phone screen, it would be days’ worth of time. And this is disturbing. It is a literal waste of time. Instagram does have its uses – there are some lovely communities on there and who doesn’t love to see a photo of a kitten? However, it is also known as a hotbed for batteri...