Ben Walker – You’re no-one if you’re not on Twitter – answers and notes
a) ‘You’re no-one’ and ‘You might as well not have existed’.
b) A shrine
c) A geek – noun – informal – a person, especially a man, who is boring and not fashionable, or who takes an interest in an unfashionable hobby or topic that might be untypical of people his age.
d) Updated semi-annually.
e) Press releases.
A press release is a public statement given to the press to publish if they wish. Ben Walker uses this with some irony here, implying that some people’s personal trivia is given the status of national news.
f) Facebook.
g) ‘Everybody has a hundred friends’.
h) The parties in the photos look amazing.
i) Everyone pretends.
j) Self-promote.
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