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    Why Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing

    by Jim Davies Jun 01, 2015 3 minutes

    Have you ever been walking in a dark alley and seen something that you thought was a crouching person, but it turned out to be a garbage bag or something similarly innocuous? Me too.

    Have you ever seen a person crouching in a dark alley and mistaken it for a garbage bag? Me neither. Why does the error go one way and not the other?

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    Human beings are intensely social animals. We live in hierarchical social environments in which our comfort, reproduction, and very survival depend on

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