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Social Softener

A person brought into important business meetings to help soften the tone and diffuse anxiety.

This person often asks the introductory personal questions of the guests: What sort of drink would the guest like, how was their drive, did they find parking all right, would they like to use the bathroom before the meeting, how is their family, what a nice tie they are wearing, isn't the weather lovely...
"Even though she acted as the Social Softener, she was actually the true decision maker of the deal."
by Mamahipster October 23, 2011
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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 closening

The feeling of having a close relationship to actresses/actors in porn videos in lieu of actual human contact
Since the pandemic started, I’ve been at home practicing social closening.
by Word-maven March 14, 2020
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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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Social signalling

A person making a statement to get a point across that gives them Reality or Internet clout.
Example 1: I have the latest iPhone!
Example 2: Jealous of my new 4K TV?... Its 120hz too!
Example 3: I went to a protest for (Insert political issue here)
Comeback: I do not care about your social signalling
by dankm3m3rzz May 24, 2021
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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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