Facebook Newsfeed Reveals Friend Totally Listening to Band You've Never Heard of on Spotify

FACEBOOK - According to your recent Facebook NewsFeed, that one friend Rob is totally listening to a song by some hip and non-mainstream band you've never heard of on the music streaming service Spotify.

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Realizing that you are not familiar with the works of Doomtree - whoever the heck they are - you are momentarily overcome with a vague sense of inferiority and alienation, which simultaneously makes your friend Rob appear at once a really cool guy and yet a pretentious dick.

Even though you could quite easily navigate your way to Wikipedia and glean more information about the Minnesota-based hip hop collective, you nonetheless convince yourself that, deep down, there's nothing wrong with only liking the mainstream beats of Coldplay, Adele and U2.

Still, you can't help but think that your own online reputation would be immeasurably improved if you just posted a comment on Rob's wall agreeing whole-heartedly with his choice in music.

However, before you can offer up such a disingenuous gesture, your mind is irreversibly distracted by the site of a really divisive political video shared to Facebook by your nauseating cousin Angela.