Was America's football holiday always such an obligation, fraught with social panic, the fear of no invitations, of sitting alone in the darkness with the remote, silently eating bacon ranch Pringles from a can?

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We do not see panic, paralysis, or social collapse.

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Facebook has announced it will allow a "panic button" application on its social networking site.

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Ceop, the government law enforcement agency tasked with tracking down online sex offenders, called for a panic button to be installed on social networking sites last November.

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It has already inspired panic among some members of his Social Democratic Party and brought tens of thousands of Germans, mostly in the east, on to the streets each Monday this month in protest.

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The ubiquity of social media, and the impossibility of controlling them, is causing panic.

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