Social Trap

A Social Trap is where someone uses another persons decency against them, generally to make them do something they'd rather not. They can start as an open invitation or request to do something that someone would not normally do, if they refuse they risk being uncharacteristically rude or impolite, or they continue. While not entirely unlike peer pressure Social Traps rely more on the finesse of landing the target in the trap, whether this be through carefully calculated subterfuge or dumb-luck. This makes them more similar to plain manipulation or a lower-stakes ultimatum, however instead of choosing A or B they are slightly more geared towards the etiquette and standards of the target.

"Dude what happened? I left you and Lucy alone for 10 minutes and I come back to you watching this."
"I didn't want to watch it, if I had refused it would've been rude."
"Yeah right, bet you enjoyed."
No I really didn't . She totally caught me in a Social Trap."

by Mr. Farenheit August 21, 2021

social dandruff

When you're just really flaky.

Damn, he always cancels on us. He's got some serious social dandruff.

by @starlord88 February 8, 2018

socially awesome

Describes someone who, after spending his childhood/adolescence/young adulthood being labelled "socially awkward" by insecure peers, finally gets his shit together and through experience learns how to be the life of the party.

Hey, remember that kid Lance who never knew what to say about the latest Jersey Shore episode? He was, like, soooo socially awkward.

No, he's socially awesome now, I totally saw him last weekend at the bar and he was telling the best jokes to a group of 50 people.

by Amerideutscher July 11, 2014

social mediac

A person who is addicted or obsessed to social media.

Once I introduced my mother to face book she became a social mediac.

by Sharkynm January 14, 2018

social meteorology

Finding out the weather in your area by scrolling through your newsfeed on facebook, instagram, etc.

I'm so glad social meteorology informed me that it snowed last night.

by grammarnazi71 November 21, 2016

social withdrawal

going without socialization for an extended period of time most likely leading to depression :/

staying in your room all days going to lead to social withdrawals making you sad and possibly depressed!

by i.luv.cats June 2, 2022

Social Geeking

The use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.) to obsess about intellectual ideas/theories, books, people, and/or other academic curiosities.

You can tell she's been social geeking, I just saw that she "liked" Henry Giroux, the critical theorist, on Facebook.

by JtotheDub July 14, 2010