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    By Rob Long • May 25, 2016 • 3m Listen

    I have a friend who has almost 50,000 followers on Twitter and almost that many on Instagram. My friend is neither famous nor infamous and has no discernible talent. His posts on Twitter are so boring and his photographs on Instagram so lackluster that it's impossible to imagine they inspire anything but eye-watering yawns...

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