I am aware.

But there appears to be a trend to suggest that social media, and the internet at large, is the source of all evil.

That before it came along, life was a perfect utopian wonderland of glory and wonder.

There were no scams, no bullying, no misery, no sadness. We all tripped along singing "la-la-la" and held hands because we were all friends and we all behaved like the good little boys and girls you read about in Enid Blyton books.

It just kind of fucks me off, especially as someone who was born in the early 70s, and grew up in the eighties and got the FUCK bullied out of him before the net, before the web, before social media, before Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and so on.

I just, on occasion, like to take the opportunity to remind people that - for the most part - life has always been shit. That people have always been shitty to one another. That PT Barnum didn't need and internet to rip the population of a country off, that some people could be bullies without a keyboard in front of them and that - for some people - being driven to kill themselves didn't require a wifi connection but just having to go to school every day.

And that elections have been won or lost without people making videos of people telling lies.