No offense to you but when I hear &quot;socialize&quot; it raises my hackles.  People at my relatively great employer use this term and for no reason.  We can communicate with each other but to use a term like &quot;socialize&quot; is to insult both you and me, for I can find no positive association with its usage.<p>*and it has nothing to do with politics.  I am about as Left as it gets.