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customerserviceguy

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17. Having social media

Reply to jmbar2 (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 28, 2021, 12:50 AM

Jan 2021

means that crazy stuff can go viral in ways that nobody previously imagined. The Internet is the wild, wild West, and anything that you can imagine (and a lot that you can't!) is bound to happen.

But this sideshow is not going to impact solid companies with actual viable business models. Maybe it will foster some distrust of the stock market, but the businesses that keep grinding out profits from normal operations will still be unaffected.

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