From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Sunday.

I'm Manvina.

For many, times spent on social media will have featured somewhere on their list of New Year's resolutions.

Certainly did on mine.

For one of our writers, the brilliant Satnam Sangera, it was right at the top. After a decade of being

addicted to social media, he switched off. So how did he do it? And could it make us all a lot happier?

We asked him to read his piece on quitting.

It's hard to think of anyone whose life has not been influenced by social media over the past

two decades. You may not have taken to LinkedIn to tell us about what fatherhood has

taught you about sales or poked someone on Facebook or slid into someone's DMs on Twitter.

But I bet an old-school friend, former colleague or ex, has come back into your life because of it.

Or you've had a mortifying picture from a night out posted without your permission.

I mean, even my mother, who doesn't have a smartphone,

checks Facebook for family photographs.

But social media probably changed my life more than most.

As an author who mostly works from libraries or home, Facebook and Twitter provided me with a virtual office packed with witty, knowledgeable, pseudo-colleagues with him to converse on any subject at any time of day.

As a journalist, I suddenly had tools with it to get the latest on any story, riot,

meme, resignation, pandemic or snack. And as an introvert, it gave me access to the best type

of networking, the kind that could be done in your yoga kit without leaving home.

Unless new yoga kit without leaving home. Unlike Greg Wallace, who met two of his wives on Twitter, I never dated someone I met

on social media, but I made several close friends to what has now become X and I got a ton

of work from it.

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