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I know people who, due to item #5 on that list, can never leave the house without a pack of 5-10 friends going along with them. Like, literally not even to Waffle House on a hungover Sunday morning to get some eggs and coffee. If one goes, the whole crowd has to go, after an hour of texting/calling each other and then taking-over three booths when they get there.
As much as I like some of these people, I never really hang out with them because of this.
I've actually not had any friends who exhibited any of these. If anything, some of my friends would have done better to adopt a few of these behaviors. I guess this confirms my suspicion that I'm probably not a geek.
I've done all of these but meh... I'm more on to hipster social fallacies now. I'd link you, but eh. If you needed to know about them, you'd know already.
Psh... I knew the guy who invented knowing about things first, before anyone else had heard of him.
(Also, this thought just popped into my head after reading a totally different article: Extroverts are ruining the internet! There, I said it. Bring back anti-social media!)
You know, Eideteker, I think you're on to something there. Extroverts are ruining the internet, for introverts. For them, it's all peaches and cream, right?
Facebook is really build around #4. All your friends will be friends of each other.
Sometimes when I'll get comments on a single Facebook post from my old boss, my ex-girlfriend, someone from church, my wife's aunt and someone I knew in elementary school, I'll think "this is really weird and kinda awkward".
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