Opinion: Social tedium

JD Wetherspoon chairman and founder Tim Martin is a career
contrarian.
From Brexit to his insistence on keeping his pubs music free
he's frequently gone against the prevailing wisdom - and
drummed up useful publicity for his near-900-strong chain in the
process.
And so on Monday he declared his company would deactivate its
Twitter, Facebook and other social media accounts. The medium is
bad for democracy, addictive, and distracting for staff, he said.
Whether the move was quixotic, opportunistic