Is moronic social media making us crackers?

Ever wonder if all that scrolling through your social media feeds is turning you into a ’moron’? Suzanne Harrington is questioning herself on that same aspect of smartphone life this week.

Today in a shop I pick up a box of buckwheat crackers and read the blurb on the side of the box. Alongside the ingredients, there’s some advice about how to “style” them with avocado “for extra Instagram likes”. I stand holding the box of crackers, wondering if social media hasn’t turned us all into morons.

Not just narcissistic morons, with our avocado-“styled” crackers – that’s a given – but actual morons. The kind of morons who check the weather on their phone rather than look out the window. Do you do that? I do that.