THE information wonderland that is social media has produced a new so-called health trend - drinking your own urine.
Several groups on Facebook with tens of thousands of followers advocate that drinking your own pee can help with a range of medical ailments such as improving cardiac health, preventing hair loss, reverse ageing and eliminating acne.
Perhaps most disturbingly, some groups encourage users to brush their teeth with urine in order to get rid of mouth toxins.
Apart from being completely deluded, surely that can't help with keeping your teeth at their whitest can it?
and while we're on the topic of unfortunate technologically-driven obsessions, new figures released in Britain have confirmed that the "Fortnite" online computer game is being blamed for one in 20 UK divorces.
The report by Divorce Online included an analysis of divorce petitions filed during 2017 and found a total of 200 - or about 5% - cited Fortnite as a reason for the couples separating.
The compulsive multiplayer game is widely available, and while it is free to download it allows "in-play purchases" which bring in about US$300m a month for its developer, Epic Games.
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