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social antibodies

Silicon Valley investor and writer Paul Graham coined the term to describe an observation that a population develops “social antibodies” in response to behaviours that have come to be perceived as harmful.

An example he cites is cigarette smoking. Once a popular and accepted habit even within intimate spaces, after smoking was banned in enclosed spaces it quickly became socially unacceptable aided by vocal people who acted like messengers in the system.

It could be argued that a busybody and a social antibody are two sides of the same coin.
Social antibodies are forming around the issue of media companies giving a platform to misinformation.
by batFalcon January 28, 2022
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Taking a break from social media

She or he is not really taking a break off social media. They are no longer interested in you. You have become a secondary option, a Plan B, the gay best friend. You chump.
Boy: "I haven't seen or heard from you in a week, how you been?"
Girl: "Yeah, I been taking a break from social media. Thanks for helping me return my AC unit. I'll buy you coffee!"
by ChueyFuey June 7, 2025
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social beef

Something you say to a kid when you got a shrimp dick
“You just social beef” -shrimp dick joe
by Ahhhh my dick fell off August 15, 2019
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National Socialism

A ideology that is Post Marxist, Anti Marxist and race socialist. This ideology was propped up intellectually by Drexler, Hitler, Darre, Backe and Feder. It is a bigoted race socialism that seeks a Germanic superstate that throws down the "Jewish Cartel of International Capitalists" and its guardian angels, the Marxists, to create a half agraian, half industrial utopia where socialism exists for the racially pure Aryans and no one else. It despises communism because it still is a form of capitalism for the Nazis. It was a grassroots and popular party among the German working class and worked with the political enviroment of Germany at the time. Its views on Veganism, Enviromentalism, solidarity, welfare and the supreme control of the means of production through central planning are rarely talked about seriously.
Normal Person:"Hey, I have been reading theory of National Socialism, and I see it as a form of consequentialist ideology like Marxism."

Illiterate Person:"Yeah, and the Democratic Republic of Korea is a democracy. Shut up Fash."
by Zandrus December 11, 2022
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Social zoned

Below friend zoned, band to social media.

Credit due to: Kaylynn and Marcus
"I like you as a broadcaster, nothing more."
"Bro, you just got social zoned."
by kayl_pierce October 27, 2018
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Secondhand socialize

Secondhand socialize: Wanting to be around people, but only able to do so through social media.
“Dude, this quarantine sucks. All I do is sit in bed, get fat, and secondhand socialize.”
by T.RexxSr. April 23, 2020
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get off of social media

To take an hiatus of social media (lol)
You need to get off of social media because social media hurts your eyes.
by thecharacterwannie June 9, 2022
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