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Like any other “new” thing in our social world, electronic “buzz words” found in “memes” have roots in older technologies. Memes are social media posters with words shared at places like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
People are also reading… There used to be a wind-up toy called a “joy buzzer” that you could hold in your palm secured by a metal ring around a finger, then when you shook someone’s hand, the mechanical vibration of this wound-up toy gave the recipient a kind of physical jolt. This was a “practical joke.” The words that give us a sudden emotional reaction are the verbal cousins to the joy buzzer because they sharply focus our attention. That means these joy buzzer words are true? Perhaps not.
Suppose a group — for example, vegetarians — is being criticized in on social media. Vegetarians are called awful people who believe weird and crazy things. We can SHARE and LIKE these social media posters or memes, showing how much smarter we are than vegetarians. Each time we share a meme we get a tiny boost of dopamine, the feel good hormone.
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