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Social Anxiety

How do you drive an introvert crazy? Friend her.

By Jennifer Graham

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    August 10, 2011

For centuries, extroverts and introverts have successfully coexisted because they need each other, not unlike a parasite and its host. One group talks; the other listens, or at least is disinclined to interrupt. But now there is an antagonist eroding our uneasy peace. Its name is social media.

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