Why Are We So Obsessed With Memes?

Published on June 30, 2017
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! MEMES! Everyone loves them. Everyone shares them. But why? And is there any benefit to them?
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Sources:
https://www.avidian.com/blog/social-media-and-psychology-why-do-people-share
http://www.iab.net/media/file/POSWhitePaper.pdf
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/one-size-does-not-fit-all-in-social-media-2/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rewired-the-psychology-technology/201207/the-power
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550612469233
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258189741_Does_Posting_Facebook_Status_Updates_Increase_or_Decrease_Loneliness_An_Online_Social_Networking_Experiment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/03/06/much-social-media-increases-loneliness-envy-study/
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/meme

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