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- Janine Shea on 07 Dec 12
  
  Social pressure compels greater use!
  
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- Janine Shea on 07 Dec 12
  
  Or avoidance...let's test what's more common
  
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But there is a new urge to behave as if life were some global high-school reunion at which everyone has taken some horrific tell-all drug.
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But that would be to debase the word “information.”
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oversharing and status anxiety, the two great scourges of the modern world.
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being anxious that our status might be falling or — the horror, the horror! — disintegrating
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Number of Twitter followers shrinking or not growing as fast as your friends’? Status anxiety attack begins. No e-mails or texts received in the past 78 minutes? Status anxiety attack accelerates. Got unfriended or discover by chance on LinkedIn that your 29-year-old college roommate is now running an agribusiness fund out of St. Louis that has assets of $47 billion and owns half of Madagascar? Status meltdown kicks in. The only antidote, the only means to push that status up again, it seems, is to keep sharing more and more.
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