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> It makes your feeling seem universal.

Rage comics, subordinate clauses, FML postings, tweets, anonymous comment threads, etc. The internet makes it easier to share the kind of tiny moments you'd never speak of. Then, suddenly, we all realized that we could all relate to them. Secret micro-shame revelation becomes a commonplace part of the modern human experience. Isn't the internet wonderful?

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One of my favorite things about XKCD is how willing Randall Munroe has been to share these kinds of trivial but intimate moments. I don’t think he would have been able to do it as a comic strip in any venue before the internet.

For instance, http://xkcd.com/245/

"Trivial but intimate moments" – you'll enjoy a lot of novels written by old French and Russian authors. Check out Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_Underground

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