Séamas O'Reilly: I’ve been trying out new social media sites as an escape raft from Twitter

Séamas O'Reilly. Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan
I turned 37 last week, which got me thinking about how old ‘old’ actually is.
It hasn’t been helped by the fact that I’ve been trying out new social media sites as an escape raft from Twitter, most of which replicate Twitter’s functionality but aren’t as popular and thus don’t have the main benefit Twitter affords: people.