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Followers.
Secret passwords.
Distorted view of reality.
False sense of belonging.
Ritualistic dependency.
Mob mentality.
Preaches, vilifies, condemns.
Difficult to quit.
So ... "Weird cult", or "Social media"? 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"schoolyard cliques"
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Unfortunately, most people never grow out of that mentality. We're supposed to be adults... supposed to be.
Jeremy Falcon
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This looks like something I would post. I have to say I am extremely surprised to see you post it.
Social media is 100% a political machine. Nothing more. Nothing less. Stop using social media. It really is that simple.
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Slacker007 wrote: This looks like something I would post. I have to say I am extremely surprised to see you post it.
Proof that your work here was not in vain. 
Slacker007 wrote: Social media is 100% a political machine.
If you control the narrative and shadow ban that which you wish not to have seen, then a logical person should naturally assume some folks are getting high on power trips. These are the "adults" that never had a girl look their way as a kid. They "grow up" and we get this behavior.
Jeremy Falcon
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Technically, CP is social media as well 
I've been hating more on Java since I got here and I now believe Python is a hoax 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I now believe Python is a hoax
Would that it were ... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Technically, CP is social media as well
Technically, the Lounge/Where I am is social media. The Soapbox used to be but that was shut down.
I don't consider the rest of the forums to be "social" in the "social media" sense, but I get your point.
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Slacker007 wrote: Stop using social media. It really is that simple.
Yes it is. At the very beginning of FB I was in and it was cool. But already before finishing studies, when the competition about who has more friends started, I had already dropped the usage to the minimum and haven't used it at all for the last 10 years...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I would add: "A pool of anger." and "Nutjobs' playground."
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Not all cults are a cesspool of anger!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yes, like the cult of Apple. This one is positive
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Sounds like mainstream religion to me.
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A can of worms?  Seriously, my first thought was a political rally or possibly organized crime/religion, but that's likely soapbox material so I refuse to elaborate further.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Windows 11?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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College campus?
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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You forgot Mr GrumpyPants.
Graeme
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More cult than social media. In fact in some "cults" there is no quiting such as the mafia.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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extremists of any type: political, religious, ideological.
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99 little bugs in the code,
99 little bugs,
Take one down, patch it around…
…147 little bugs in the code. 
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it was ever thus 
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CHill60 wrote: it was ever thus
and ever will be, forever and ever. Amen.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Hail Hydra!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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