1320: Walmart

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Walmart
What I really want is to hang out where I hung out with my friends in college, but have all my older relatives there too.
Title text: What I really want is to hang out where I hung out with my friends in college, but have all my older relatives there too.

Explanation

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Transcript

When a network tries to become everyone's one-stop hub, the Walmart of social interaction...
[Cueball and Hairy standing in a supermarket, Cueball holding groceries under his arm, Hairy with a cart]
Cueball: Oh, uh, hi! Funny running into you here.
Hairy: Oh, hey! Yeah! How've you been?
...it inevitably becomes the Walmart of social interaction.

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Discussion

For what it's worth, both Facebook and Google+ have features to discriminate your posts between family members, work, friends et.c. - Lists and Circles respectively. 141.101.98.218 01:37, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Anything about the repetition of the phrase "the Walmart of social interaction"? --Troy0 (talk) 17:59, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Maybe the first phrase is meant as a comparison. I.E. The one-stop-shop of interaction. While the second phrase takes it literally, since the comic depicts interaction inside a Walmart (or similar). 108.162.219.125 02:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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