The Internet's 10 Most irritating words

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The Internet's 10 Most irritating words

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1. Folksonomy
2. Blogosphere
3. Blog
4. Netiquette
5. Blook
6. Webinar
7. Vlog
8. Social Networking
9. Cookie
10. Wiki, Podcast, Avatar, User-generated content

Source: http://www.yougov.com/

A lot of them look very popular... :)
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Hardly irritating. Just exclusive to the internet.
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no, they are VERY irritating. I totally agree. I can not stand the word "blogosphere" especially. The word cookie annoys me because 90% of the time it is used by people who don't know what they're talking about. :roll:
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:no, they are VERY irritating. I totally agree. I can not stand the word "blogosphere" especially. The word cookie annoys me because 90% of the time it is used by people who don't know what they're talking about. :roll:
Hehe. So true. But the blogosphere? What's wrong with that one?
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I hate Web 2.0

I also hate the word 'blog'. Let's just call it what it is guys.. a "post" or "article".
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seodevhead wrote:I hate Web 2.0
+1
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Post by vigge89 »

I don't find most of those irritating - apart from 'podcasting', 'blog', 'vlog' which I am somewhat fed up on, and 'netiquette' which is just a plainly annoying word (if it even is one?).
However, all the overuse of the terms "Web 2.0" and 'beta' has become extremely annoying along with all the not so fancy nor innovative (anymore) titles and names where the last vowel has been removed and resulted in names like "frappr", "codr", "flaggr", etc. is increasingly annoying. Whenever I see something new with the very common "web 2.0" colorpalette, a name ending with -r (where the r has a different color than the rest of the text in the logo) and a nicely colored badge which says BETA my urge to just close the active tab explodes.
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seodevhead wrote:I hate Web 2.0

I also hate the word 'blog'. Let's just call it what it is guys.. a "post" or "article".
I'm the opposite. I love Web 2.0, because when I say "web" to my older relatives, they immediately think of "clicking the blue E", or worse, "Oh, you mean AOL". But when I show them things like Gmail, and Yahoo's new maps (ajax!), they understand that they are different than "the old web".

So, its a useful differentiator. It also does a good job of grouping together a variety of technologies that people may want to use to accomplish a task in a general way.

Blog, on the other hand, I don't object to the WORD, I object to the usage. Web logs, as they started, were personal journals that people posted online for friends/family/colleagues to read. In that sense, its a great word. Sadly, however, it came to be used to describe any semi-regularly updated site. Sigh.

Its all in the context. Now, blogosphere, on the other hand.. What, now Blogging is so big it has its own (newly created, fictional) portion of the WORLD!? Talk about ego!
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Well, there are a *lot* of bloggers... :P

The blogosphere refers to the "blogging community" (or communities)
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seodevhead wrote:I hate Web 2.0

I also hate the word 'blog'. Let's just call it what it is guys.. a "post" or "article".
+1 again.
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I find most of those word quite useful, given the right usage.

Most people don't understand what a term like Web 2.0 is built on, what it subsumes. They don't see the difference and if you don't know it, you can't explain it to them - hence the annoyance.

Cookies - probably the most misunderstood part of web-technology. Sad in some ways, but good in others, as people care about their privacy enough to discuss the invasive potential.

Webinar - horrendous neologism, I agree.

Folksonomy - aka "wisdom of the crowds": 100 people in a village of 358 people form a lynch mob, burn down the jail, hang the sheriff and the prisoner: "Wisdom of the crowds"? No. Most people understand it in marketing terms where people are regarded as lemmings. If you think about it in a different, more participatory way and shed the dollar sign, follow open source principles (Eric S. Raymond's theorem of "many eyeballs taming complexity") you can end up with amazing results (e.g. Wikepedia).

Blogosphere - let them have it. It's a fad and it's waning.

Social Networking - honestly, go to facebook and be not impressed by what they've pulled together there? Sorry, not possible for me. Even MySpace has a function, as loud and blearing as it is.

Wiki - perfectly good, see Wikipedia and so many others

Vlog - sad people with a webcam

Blook - don't even know what that is and don't want to think about what it might be
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patrikG wrote:Blook - don't even know what that is and don't want to think about what it might be
Oblivious as well.
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"Avatar" isn't relegated to internet usage alone. ;)
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seodevhead wrote:I hate Web 2.0

I also hate the word 'blog'. Let's just call it what it is guys.. a "post" or "article".
A Blog is a collection of posts/articles. It's a Weblog.
patrikG wrote:Most people don't understand what a term like Web 2.0 is built on, what it subsumes. They don't see the difference and if you don't know it, you can't explain it to them - hence the annoyance.
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Post by ReDucTor »

most irratating words on the internet in my opinion:
1. owned
2. leet
3. roflma (what ever happened to just lol)
4. irl
5. omfg

ok thats IRC out of the way.

6. ajax (really does this need its own name?)
7. visual basic (the devil)
8. python/ruby (I cant wait for the debate on this one - I find those 2 WORDS so anoying)

Now for the internet its self irritations

9. ping time out
10. download corrupt
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