sewer socialism

Originally a pejorative term for the the Socialist Party of America, sewer socialism is a form of socialism that focuses on improving quality of life from the ground up instead of reform through revolution. Examples include sanitation systems, city-owned water and power, improved quality of education and so on. Also known as Constructive Socialism, and is considered a pregenitor to Democratic Socialism.

"We wanted our workers to have pure air, we wanted them to have sunshine, we wanted planned homes, we wanted living wages; we wanted recreation for young and old; we wanted vocational education; we wanted a chance for every human being to be strong and live a life of happiness.

And, we wanted everything that was necessary to give them that: playgrounds, parks, lakes, beaches, clean creeks and rivers, swimming and wading pools, social centers, reading rooms, clean fun, music dance song and joy for all."
-- Emil Seidel, Milwaukee's first socialist mayor, describing his sewer socialism platform

by The Logical Fallacy August 7, 2023

Creative social architect

Somethings that Only Joe Shmoe can do because he created the term.

I host The Morning Show with cohost. helping my cohost create their own identity to be able to build an empire of decentralized content. Therefore I am a creative social architect building from the ground up.

by JoeShmoe_xrp May 27, 2023

Multi-social media

When you're having two or more different conversations on different social media platforms with the same person.

"Have you talked to them yet?"
"Yeah, via multi-social media."

by SheepPlagueRat March 13, 2018

Social Baby

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife's baby.

A: "The royal baby is the most influential infant in the world".
B: "That was until world met the Social Baby".

by The Guy Next Door September 9, 2015

Social Media Overload

When someone has been viewing social media topics, or any one topic, on social media for so long, non-stop, that they can't handle anymore new information. If more information continues to be presented to them then, they may get visibly upset since they've reached the overload point. They get upset even faster if they don't have a particular interest in the topic(s).

There have been so many tumblr posts on that new Cartoon that came out recently, Johnny hit Social Media Overload.

by MegaKitCat June 28, 2016

Social Gravity

The force or influence that a social group exerts on your own integrity, drawing you to fit in with the crowd, even when you might not want to.

“I wasn’t going to clap, but the whole room stood up. Social gravity got me.”

by TalkieToaster October 4, 2025

Social speedster

A social speedster is someone who essentially 'speedruns' through their social media networks, which includes scrolling through their feed like a madman, liking posts with minimum forethought, reading all their PMs under a second, and clicking on one insta story after another without any pause in the middle.

Social speedsters are also highly known for sending a snap in a lightning quick succession. The time it takes to take their phone out of their pocket, enter snapchat, and snapping a pic is only a mere 3 seconds.

Nowadays, most youngsters and young adults are social speedsters. This inclination can have its drawbacks, as a social speedster may zoom through their PMs but not respond to them immediately, and eventually as more PMs build up they might forget about the ones they've already read.

Me: My friends are all social speedsters. You should see how blazing fast they plow their feeds and PMs. Every time I send a message and it gets read and they never reply back, I sometimes question my relationship with them, but then I remember "oh duh, they are social speedsters". Can't blame them entirely, as they are just trying to adapt to today's information-packed, attention-based media.

by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian November 16, 2020