‘Everyone I know is affected': Three influencers share why they pulled back from social media

Much has been written about the psychological difficulties of navigating a life online. However, is it really all bad? Kate Demolder writes

(L-R) Claire Fullam and Rosemary MacCabe.

When Claire Fullam joined Instagram in 2016, she did it to find answers about why she was losing her hair: “I lost 90% of my hair in five weeks due to alopecia areata, and I was looking for information and a community to figure out how I’d get it back,” she says.

Fullam created the online persona of ‘Claire Balding’, speaking with people experiencing hair loss, to find out what worked for them, and what didn’t.