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Haunted by Facebook, students can't now reinvent themselves at university

Social networks make reinventing yourself at university much trickier

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

My mum had a friend at university who had been called ‘Pudding’ at school. They’d sometimes be walking down the street, and someone who had known the now-svelte adult as a chubby 13-year-old would say ‘Hello, Pudding’. As I get ready to start at university myself in October, it’s in the knowledge that my schoolgirl self will be even harder to escape.

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