COMMENT
A DANGEROUS RELATIONSHIP?
Any of us can build a following online, but a large band of followers can make it tricky to navigate the turbulent waters of the digital world
ALEKS KROTOSKI
PORTRAIT: KATE COPELAND ILLUSTRATION: SCO TT BALMER
Aleks is a social psychologist, broadcaster and journalist. She presents The Digital Human.
When I was nine years old, I was desperately in love with a man who was at least 40 years my senior. Don’t worry; it was entirely unrequited – in fact, Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees didn’t even know I existed because he’d stopped being a Monkee 20 years earlier. But that didn’t stop me from decorating my books with love hearts and ‘AK + GMD’ (little known fact, Mickey Dolenz’s real name is George Michael Dolenz), and entering a pre-teen trance every time I put Pleasant Valley Sunday on my record player.