The (anti) social media habits of schoolkids have taken up a lot of newspaper and online column space this week in Australia. The latest craze to take hold of our teens (doesn’t it seem like only last month it was planking?) is to “rate roots” via ingeniously titled “Root Rater” pages on Facebook. For the benefit of my international readers, “rooting” is the uniquely Australian euphemism for getting to know someone very well. The accepted protocol seems to be: root, […]