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social shaming

The use of social media to shame a stubborn or unresponsive company into fixing its goods or services. In short, it's applying the doctrine of public humiliation to shape behavior to social media and thus a much larger or at least potentially much larger audience.
I'm using social shaming to make a software provider fix its crappy software.
by Eye of Bast November 15, 2014
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social ontology

A cyclical time theory of linearity in which asymmetry causes incompleteness (inequality); and incompleteness causes discontinuity; and discontinuity recursively causes asymmetry.

That is to say, from mediums emerge outcomes, from outcomes emerge catastrophes and from catastrophes recurse to form new mediums beginning the cycle of linearity once again.

Also called ontologistics.
Social ontology is an ontologistical iteration of the tri-functional hypothesis.
by sandraxine August 26, 2018
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Social distancing

To make sure you stay away from slags
Was out with the lads and saw an absolute stinker. Had to practice social distancing with that one.
by Theoreticalpsydragon April 4, 2020
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Socially Dangerous

A person that should not go out in public alone.

A style of clothing/dress/hair/piercings that is so weird it cannot be unseen and is indescribable.

A person that is loosing touch with society because of massive amounts of time spent indoors.
Marcie- Is Leah taking fashion tips from Socially Dangerous magazine again?
Stacy- Oh God, don't let her out in public, what people will see cannot be unseen.

Meanwhile in Japan, the gameshows there usually include socially dangerous costumes, I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those outfits.

Mike- Have you seen Steve around lately?

Adam- No, he's been in his WoW world for two months now
Mike- Oh no! once he reaches level 80, he's gonna be socially dangerous!

Adam- Dude, best bring him back to reality gently...
by wirelesscable August 30, 2010
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Social Baby

A phenomenon in which two or more people combine their attitudes toward engagement with others to create a unique space for communication and external meta-cognition, which is systematically fed to different groups in order to affect change on a grand, hierarchical scale.
"Dude, wanna get together and make a social baby?"
"Yeah man, for sure!"
by old fruit March 9, 2013
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socially dead

- A person who doesn't give a shit about other people, rarely talks to anyone in person (and does laconically if so), and often has only one or zero friends. May appear distant, aloof and unemotional to others. Although most of them are somewhat active on the internet, some socially dead people may have vanished completely from social media, or rarely leave their home other than for errands or appointments. Only opens up to people they really, really like, although one has to know how to access them the right way, and this is a hard process. They can seem intriguing and distant at first, but if they ever open up, they are often interesting, intelligent and beautiful souls. This behavior can sometimes be caused by traumatic life events, teenage angst, misanthropy, existential crisis, depression, severe anxiety, mental illness, or the person is just "that way". Main characteristic of Schizoid Personality Disorder. May or may not be asexual.

- Someone who is remarkably slow to reply to text messages due to being frequently offline or distracted, much to the extreme frustration of people who keep trying to talk to them.

also see schizoid, loner, lone wolf, hermit or hikikomori
Yoann: What happened to you Jin? You seem so socially dead. You used to be so fun to stick around, but now....

*1 month later*

Yoann: Damn, he hasn't replied yet...I miss him.

Jin: hey

Yoann: Oh, hey! Finally, you texted back...

*2 weeks later, Jin still hasn't replied*

Ryan: FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-
by Mr Laiuo May 2, 2018
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physical socializing

Two or more individuals interacting in the physical presence of one another, without the immediate aid of online networking sites, telephones, mobile phones, text messaging, instant messaging, or other electronic communication mechanism. Two cups connected by a string suffices since someone must actually get close enough to another person to hand the cup over.
Two people sitting at a table in a cafe having a conversation with only air between them are in the process of physical socializing.
by OaklandWalker May 5, 2009
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