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Sideline Chatter: Patriots coach Belichick isn’t sold on social media

Bill Belichick, social-media maven? You make the call:

—July 2011 (when asked about Chad Johnson’s use of social media): “I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook … so I’d probably be the last to know.”

—September 2015 (when asked if he was following a leaked story online): “You should go talk to the geniuses who are online. I don’t know. MyFace, YourFace, InstantFace … ”

—October 2015 (to a reporter checking his phone): “What were you, on SnapFace there or whatever you’re talking about?”

“After making his ‘SnapFace’ crack,” wrote Todd Dewey of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Belichick cut his news conference short to make a call on his rotary phone.