BuzzFeed’s new social media card game is an easy way to harass people

If you’ve ever accidentally sent an embarrassing text to the wrong person, you know the horrible, sinking feeling that settles in your chest when you realize that your ill-considered words or provocative photos have gone astray — and there’s no taking them back.

That sense of horror is the animating force behind Social Sabotage, BuzzFeed’s new “awkward party game.” The concept is simple: players receive cards that tell them where to share a message or video (your Facebook New Feed, your mom, your ex) and what to share (the picture in your camera roll, a text that says “I love the smell of my own farts”). All you have to do is pick your poison from the available options, and hit send.

It’s a game that feels halfway between Cards Against...

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