It is often said that Singapore is a cleaned city, not a clean one - a reference to the army of cleaners who sweep away discarded plastic bags, tin cans and half-eaten sticks of sotong balls before most of us even wake up.
In a similar way, the social media most of us experience on a daily basis is also a somewhat artificial construct.
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