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

I know plenty of people who scroll TikTok, but I know almost nobody who actually posts there, because everyone I know is, like me, too old and thick to adapt to the always-on, face-forward, bright and shiny world of TikTok culture

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.