In the weeks that followed, I changed my Facebook settings multiple times to block the status updates, but they somehow found a way to keep coming.

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Yet the reality, increasingly, is that they can't and don't leave the bubble -- the bubble moves right along with them, except that it is no longer merely a bubble, it is a heavily fortified multiple-city-block mobile bunker.

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In Manhattan, there may be multiple coffee shops or coffee carts on a single block.

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