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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by bryanrasmussen on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:25AM (#18030883)
hell is a place where you actually have favorite companies and engage in conversations with those companies.

it is said that you should never meet your heroes (or I suppose your favorite celebs). Hell is a place where you are exposed to your heroes' casual thoughts.

maybe it would just be hell for me; but a personality change so extreme that I ended up with favorite companies afterwards does sound like the plot to a dystopian novel.

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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by oblio on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:31AM (#18030914)
People do want to meet their heroes, there's a reason we have terms such as "fans", "groupies", etc.
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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by teddyh on Thursday September 20, 2018 @06:11AM (#18031069)
Dogs chase cars, but it usually does not go well if they catch one.
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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by bryanrasmussen on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:14AM (#18032566)
a fan does not necessarily want to meet their hero, whereas it is of course true that a groupie does. Nonetheless, the saying still exists that you should never meet your heroes, even if fans and groupies do want to do that which they should never.
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