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Do you mean shipping as in relationships?

That's the trend in fandom: building (sometimes very) non-canon virtual relationships between two characters in a show/movie/book, or real people, or what-have-you. Doesn't have to be the same source: you could ship Kirk and Leia (I'm sure it's been done already... Oh yeah, Google gave me 7.5 million hits).

It's mostly a fan-fiction/fan-art thing, but it's also a conversational thing when talking between fans of any genre.

Depending on the creators of the content and their relationship with their fan-base, sometimes these speculations can become canon.
 
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Now HALF of families text each other in the same house: Experts say tech craze could have a 'catastrophic' effect on family life

‘It is potentially catastrophic for the human relational values that underpin family life at its best, with real, face-to-face communication being increasingly displaced and sidelined by the machine.’
...all because of this new website o_O
 
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Now HALF of families text each other in the same house: Experts say tech craze could have a 'catastrophic' effect on family life

‘It is potentially catastrophic for the human relational values that underpin family life at its best, with real, face-to-face communication being increasingly displaced and sidelined by the machine.’
...all because of this new website o_O
If being on this site less means I have to talk to my family more, I guess I'll have to get used to the new layout. Maybe I'll try viewing it with sunglasses?
 
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Hendrik Bruna, author of Miffy the rabbit passed away.
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Now HALF of families text each other in the same house: Experts say tech craze could have a 'catastrophic' effect on family life

‘It is potentially catastrophic for the human relational values that underpin family life at its best, with real, face-to-face communication being increasingly displaced and sidelined by the machine.’
...all because of this new website o_O

I remember when a commercial for some carrier came out with everyone in a family calling each other at the dinner table. Promoting family time I think, Same response
 
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