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Alan Simpson: Stop Instagraming your breakfast and tweeting your first-world problems and getting on YouTube so you can see 'Gangnam…

On the recordDecember 4, 2012
Stop Instagraming your breakfast and tweeting your first-world problems and getting on YouTube so you can see 'Gangnam Style.'

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Alan Simpson criticizes the youth for their social media habits and encourages them to focus on more important issues.

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