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Is not joining Facebook a sign you’re a psychopath?

John Rentoul

David Cameron watching th 008 300x180 Is not joining Facebook a sign youre a psychopath?The Catch-Up Service is going to need more than one instalment to keep up with Questions to Which the Answer is No asked while I was away on my fact-finding mission.

Number 835, above, was asked by the Daily Mail on the sound statistical grounds that neither the Batman cinema shooter nor Anders Breivik was on Facebook.

Number 834 was asked early on in the Olympic Games by Huffington Post (see picture, from the Downing Street Twitter feed):

Curse Of Cameron: Is the Prime Minster Jinxing Our Olympic Medal Hopefuls?

Number 833 was the Daily Mail again:

Is an Australian billionaire about to launch the real-life Jurassic Park?

Thanks to Graham for both of those, and for drawing my attention to number 832, also in the Daily Mail:

Is this Britain’s biggest whinger?

Apparently a retired youth worker has written a letter (sorry, “penned a missive”) to David Cameron every day since March.

As Graham says, oh the irony of the Mail complaining about someone else complaining every day when that is what it has done for at least the last 30 years.

Look out for the book and e-book, Questions to Which the Answer is No, published by Elliott & Thompson next month.

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  • david_a_hill

    First of all psychopath is not used anymore – the correct term is sociopath

  • david_a_hill

    Secondly, the inference is that being a sociopath is a negative trait which is also incorrect – like most traits it exists on a axis of severe to slight – many successful people have sociopathic traits which work very much to their advantage and therefore benefit society.

  • http://twitter.com/francessmith frances smith

    i did a quick google search of facebook and murder, and on the first page were two stories about people who had accounts on facebook being involved in murders, so its quite possible that we are more at risk from facebook users than non facebook users.

  • porkfright

    Some of my best friends are sociopaths.


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