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I Know What You Think of Me - The New York Times

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Hearing other people’s uncensored opinions of you is an unpleasant reminder that you’re just another person in the world.

Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. Recently I received an e-mail that wasn’t meant for me, but was about me. I’d been cc’d by accident. This is one of the darker hazards of electronic communication, Reason No. 697 Why the Internet Is Bad — the dreadful consequence of hitting “reply all” instead of “reply” or “forward.” The context is that I had rented a herd of goats for reasons that aren’t relevant here and had sent out a mass e-mail with photographs of the goats attached to illustrate that

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