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Social Media “Grey Goo” Destroys Internet

The Grey Goo theory goes that one day, some science lab somewhere will invent something nasty that replicates itself over and over until, well, there’s just a lot of goo.

If you set up enough social media havens and link them all together using the extraordinarily lax “give us all your personal info and we’ll re-post your stuff (and thanks for your entire life history, by the way)” anti-pattern that’s so common today - then isn’t it conceivable that one day you might post something, and bury everyone in an infinite loop of I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog I just had a Japadog?

Japadog NOT Grey Goo

NOTE: Japadogs are not in fact Grey Goo, although they are a contender for creating it.

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