What is the internet-related word that irritates you the most?

Web 2.0

Has to be blogospere.

Blogosphere, even.

I've never even heard of some of those before - what's "folksonomy"?

Clearly I am not a cool internet-savvy kid :(

http://www.ninjawords.com/folksonomy

A lot of lists/polls on ILM are examples of folksonomy (even though we'd probably rather call them rockonomy or poponomy)

and I'm not a kid either :)

"vlog" is horrible, sounds like a dragon in a shit fantasy novel

Blogosphere. Although "blook" would have been a close second were it there.

see #5

Blook? What the hell.

Folksonomy? Never heard of that.

Most annoying? <insert name of ilxor> wink wink

For a moment I thought #4 said Nediquette.

where is "all of them" option?

oops.

here:

O all of them

How can you have all if you also have "nothing" option?

what's a vlog? A Russian blog?

oops.

here:

O all of them

-- StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:26 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I am so dumb I tried to click this. And I don't even want to vote for them all.

To be honest I don't find any of them irritating. Vlog and Folksonomy are awkward sounding but some are just pretty useful shorthand.

vlog: video (b)log amirite?

i think i actually find a lot of "leet-speak" a hell of a lot more annoying than these words, it's so lame and nerdy

блог
(russian blog)

interesting to see if that works

Some of it irritates me, but even more: people using internet shorthand in reality. Someone actually saying "lol" out loud is okay with me, but "double you tee ef" or "oh em gee" is dud. I don't know where the line is, but those two have crossed it.

People actually say OMG out loud?

"R O F L"

people actually say "lol" out loud?????

yes :(

oh dear

Someone at work even said "are tee em ef" which nobody complained about, so I played dumb and asked him to repeat it and he did it again exactly the same way. Then I gave up. :-/

(it's RTFM for Read The F*cking Manual and not RTMF for "I'm only your manager and I don't know sh*t about anything")

i'm so not in the know when it comes to computer/internet lingo that when my friend said he was "DL-ing" a movie, i had no clue what he was talking about. ditto when he asked me if i had "bband".

and when i first started lurking here last year, it took me about 3 months to figure out what OTM stood for.

yes, i am retarded sometimes.

if someone actually spoke to me *in real life* (haha) using such shorthands as 'rtfm', otm, omg, wtf, etc. i would probably refuse to ever speak to them ever again.

so did you stop talking to that friend from your previous reply?

Ha - I have started saying ffs when the kids are getting just too much. Sorry.

when i said "said" i meant "wrote"...

ok! (before this becomes very confusing - because you didn't say said, you wrote said)

oh fuck, you're right... this is very confusing... i spend way too much time on the internet and the different dimensions are starting to blurrrrrrr

"spam" is pretty meh too as a word, IMO.

quite tasty though

it is? do we have spam in shops over here?

User generated content, man

xpost Had some spam sushi - I kid you not - in Hawaii!
I haven't seen it around here though.

That was one of those weird non-sequitur posts that referred back to the thread title with no context, not so much referring to user generated content being on sale in shops, which'd pretty much be the last fuckin straw.

I hate "webinar".

used to hate podcast but elss bothered now. would say GUI if it counts.

GUI is more general and older than being a web thing, so no it don't.

blogosphere

splogs is actually a nice/funny word but for the most irritating thing.

'webinar' gets at me in ways that the others mentioned don't, in that it seems to have been adopted completely by people who otherwise don't really use the internet, and it's used in such an earnest manner, rather than the slightly self-conscious way things like blogs and netiquette are used. Or something.

Webinar is managers trying to leverage their synergies with the internet generation in order to be hip, isn't it?

i hate the way JPEG has become a synonym for digital image. and i blame the internet.

i hate the way JPEG has become a synonym for digital image

has it??? any more than, say, GIF?

"googling". I like it though.

Not exactly internet-related, but I hate that "ipod" is also starting to mean every other MP3 player that's not an iPod.

haha roz yes, i had a row with my sister who told me i was dumb to call my sony mp3 player a "walkman" and not an "ipod" because 'kids' wouldn't know what i was talking about.

I told her that "walkman" is exactly what it's called and plus i didn't give two fucks what kids thought these days.

I opened this thread with the intention of voting for "interwebs". I hate that cutesy rubbish.
But yeah, then I saw "Social Networking" on the options list, so that won. Worst ever. I hate it when people talk about it offline too. Newspapers constantly have articles about how important "networking" is for your career. Hate.

It kinda bothers me when people refer to Wikipedia as "Wiki", but then I realize I'm a huge nerd for caring. (and I don't even LIKE Wikipedia)

but wikipedia call themselves wiki, don't they ?

it's called wikipedia because that particular type of underlying bloggy system is called a "wiki", and that particular site has decided to use it as an encyclopedia - many people use "wikis" to keep track of their own documentation, allow others in their department to edit it, etc. - i actually think wikis work really well

Exactly. Wikipedia is a wiki.

Who are you people?

"has it??? any more than, say, GIF?"

it has in my work place.

Took me a couple of weeks to discover what GIS meant. I'm so DMUB. :-(

Internet words are for fags.

"content" is the worst, generally speaking. it's such a nothing word, a zero meant to signify...what? everything? fuck that.

never heard "webinar" before but that's fucking awful...sounds like a D&D character.

D&D? delete and destroy? Dud 'n' Dud?

"content" is the worst, generally speaking. it's such a nothing word

Are you serious? That's one of the most important words. . .

content has been picked up and used to mean a lot of different things, which is annoying, but it does have a proper (and useful) usage.

> A lot of lists/polls on ILM are examples of folksonomy (even though we'd probably rather call them rockonomy or poponomy)

not really, it's more to do with tagging of things, it's 'taxonomy' done by folks. categorisation, rather than ranking.

blook and vlog are trying too hard. as is blogosphere.

D&D = dungeons and dragons.

8080 :P

i've never understood '8080'. please clarify.

Yeah, what does that mean?

cool! i thought i was the only one who didn't know.

BLOOD DIAMONDS IS THE NEW RESPEK KNUCKLES, 8080 IS THE NEW OTM

now rubyred knows what it means we need a new 8080

I despise using nouns as verbs. Okay, I'll give you Google, but how can you "Myspace somebody?"

i KNEW it was all a goddamn conspiracy against me...

can I just make a complaint? I've been using yahoo mail for years and years, I even paid the 20 bucks a year to not have ads and all that storage and whatnot, which doesn't really matter anymore anyway. Still, when I go to my mail page, there's a blank picture next to "inbox" and when I go to click on it if I accidently mouseover the picture, txt pops up obscuring the inbox button saying "Your avatar goes here! Click here to make a virtual you!"

Guess what yahoo, I'm a fucking ADULT. I don't want a cartoon photo that looks vaguely like me 15 years ago on the internet. Stop telling me about it, stop popping upt that text, and just fucking get rid of the blank cartoon.

Some of it irritates me, but even more: people using internet shorthand in reality. Someone actually saying "lol" out loud is okay with me, but "double you tee ef" or "oh em gee" is dud. I don't know where the line is, but those two have crossed it.

I'll tell you where the line is: if the internet shorthand takes more effort to say out loud than its longhand counterpart (double-u tee eff vs what the fuck, oh em gee vs uh muh god) then it's fucking retarded. But saying "laugh out loud" out loud is like, either redundant or a lie. But "lol" has a new meaning nowadays, something like "that was funny and i didn't actually laugh but i would have if i laughed at a lot of shit, bravo"

But "lol" has a new meaning nowadays, something like "that was funny and i didn't actually laugh but i would have if i laughed at a lot of shit, bravo"

otm

But Valoss, I love verbing new nouns! You know, the act of making them verbs. Text me, brah. Maybe we can blog about it. Or ILX it.

man every time someone OTMs me it seriously feels like xmas.

Will M.: OTM!!!

this is tough because avatar is annoying outside the internets too, while webinar, though web-specific, is business-speak-y

I'm going with blog. No apostrophe, no credibility.

I'll tell you where the line is

well put, thanks

you guys it has to be PODCAST never has nothing gone so far on a name

uh, BlOGOSPHERE much?

podcast has caught on too much to be annoyed by it. I listen to various podcasts all the time.

"Webinar" is a terrible word. That was my vote.

Whichever one my dad is saying out loud this week.

what does webinar mean? I has never heard it.

it's a "seminar" (thought not really a seminar because you are by yourself at the computer) that's delivered via the web. adobe does a bunch. you can pay adobe some money, and then they will do a live tutorial for your employees via net.

also never heard:

folksonomy
vlog (well there is the jhoshea thread but I don't know what it means)
blook

hauntobloggy

i voted for "blogosphere" b/c i don't really believe anyone uses the word "blook" or "vlog" or at least i hope not.

there should have been some made up ones thrown in there.

ogglebloggle

Clicks and mortar makes me shudder. Podcast will die like Betamax. And on the work side of things, I hate people being described as content producers - call them writers or editors or designers or video editors or whatever - these terms are perfectly okay for every other industry that uses these people. Content producer feels like the people who came up with the concept of the site and built it suddenly turned around and went 'oh shit - now we have to fill it with stuff. Oh anything will do, that guy over there can write shit.'

but that's what happens.

Content producer feels like the people who came up with the concept of the site and built it suddenly turned around and went 'oh shit - now we have to fill it with stuff. Oh anything will do, that guy over there can write shit.'

but that's how it actually works!

xpost

Avatar is a Hindu word and is pre the internet in its computer use.

folksonomy
like taxonomy, only a bunch of people do it, like tags on flickr pics or something. i dunno if flickr has that as i don't use it.

vlog
a video blog. see angry nerds on youtube.

blook
writing a book on a blog. blog + book = blook. it can also mean something else but i forget what.

they're all bad, but the one that TRULY makes me feel like punching faces is folksonomy. I HATE THAT SHITTY NAME.

xpost jarlrmai yes, but it has been "claimed" more or less by internet nerds to mean a picture of a cartoon that represents you on the nets.

i voted for "blogosphere" b/c i don't really believe anyone uses the word "blook" or "vlog" or at least i hope not.

I have not ever really heard "blook" beyond the definition, but vlog I have heard. many times.

how can you "Myspace somebody?"

Put annoying layout and unnecessary emo song on top of him.

Also make him pose in his bathroom at weird angle.

Someone at work even said "are tee em ef"

I actually heard this one a lot in pre-internet days (or at least the early days) but then again I was in a tech writing program full of people who actually wrote manuals.

I voted "social networking" because it's one I can imagine people saying seriously the most often

I voted "webinar" because it makes me physically ill

although I suppose it's not as bad as it could be (BLOGINAR!)

FOLKSOMINAR

SUBPOENA

bukkake

bukkake
Well, that's definitely one of those things that I hate the internet for teaching me what means.

I suppose it meant something quite different to you before?

I actually heard this one a lot in pre-internet days (or at least the early days) but then again I was in a tech writing program full of people who actually wrote manuals.

so, they could... read them faster?

i haven't heard all of these. if 'vlog' was in regular circulation, i'd probably hate it. but of those which i hear, i *think* 'social networking' is the annoying-est.

one more vote for blogosphere

people in the early days of the internet and their "Pipin' Hot Content"

UGGGH

'information superhighway'

'web'

CHILD PORN INVESTIGATION

Worst pet hate: people misusing GIS as "Google image search". Because it already has a longstanding meaning in IT: "Geographical Information System".

Worst on that list: blook, then vlog.

Other annoying things: too many to mention.

Podcast, by far. I keep thinking of Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers.

BLOGOSPHERE

-- there are too many blogs for this term to be useful
-- there is no such word or prefix "blogo"
-- it is three syllables long while the clearer synonym "blogs" is 1 syllable

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Bump" is one I rather like.

Bump.

"ILX"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i have never heard anyone say webinar

I have. We have them at work sometimes. FUCKING AWESOME.

I still use "Infobahn" from time to time.

dom dom dom on the infobahn

i basically voted for blook on the basis of it being the ugliest word in the list.

I think this result confirms that the original poll was rigged or fake. Not enough people have heard of "folksonomy" for it to irritate.

I'm in a webinar!

Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

a new horror at my place of employment:

'brown-bag webinar'