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

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/22/wiphone222.xml

Here's the top ten according to this article (place in their top ten between brackets)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
blogosphere (2) 20
webinar (6) 12
netiquette (4) 8
blook (5) 7
vlog (7) 6
podcast (=10) 6
social networking (8) 5
blog (3) 5
other (specify) 5
folksonomy (1) 4
nothing irritates me about the internet ever4
wiki (=10) 2
avatar (=10) 2
cookie (9) 1
user generated content (=10) 1


StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

Web 2.0

Bob Six, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

Has to be blogospere.

Hello Sunshine, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

Blogosphere, even.

Hello Sunshine, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

C J, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

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)

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

and I'm not a kid either :)

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:42 (eighteen years ago)

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

marmotwolof, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

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

Dom Passantino, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

see #5

Rubyred, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

Blook? What the hell.

Folksonomy? Never heard of that.

Most annoying? <insert name of ilxor> wink wink

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

For a moment I thought #4 said Nediquette.

NickB, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

where is "all of them" option?

lex pretend, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

oops.

here:

O all of them

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

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

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

what's a vlog? A Russian blog?

Grandpont Genie, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

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

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

vlog: video (b)log amirite?

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

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

lex pretend, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

блог
(russian blog)

interesting to see if that works

Ste, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

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.

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

People actually say OMG out loud?

"R O F L"

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

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

Rubyred, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

yes :(

lex pretend, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

oh dear

Rubyred, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

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")

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Rubyred, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Rubyred, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

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

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

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

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

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

Rubyred, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

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

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

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

Rubyred, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:14 (eighteen years ago)

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

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

quite tasty though

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

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

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

User generated content, man

Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

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

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

I hate "webinar".

Trayce, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

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

blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

blogosphere

onimo, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

'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.

Bocken Social Scene, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

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

StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

Grandpont Genie, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

"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.

Roz, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

uh, BlOGOSPHERE much?

jessie monster, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

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.

kenan, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Whichever one my dad is saying out loud this week.

nickalicious, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

what does webinar mean? I has never heard it.

jessie monster, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Will M., Friday, 22 June 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

also never heard:

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

jessie monster, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

hauntobloggy

blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

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

bell_labs, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

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

ogglebloggle

jessie monster, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

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.'

Anna, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

but that's what happens.

jessie monster, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

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

kenan, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

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

Jarlrmai, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Will M., Friday, 22 June 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Will M., Friday, 22 June 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

how can you "Myspace somebody?"

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

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Also make him pose in his bathroom at weird angle.

nathalie, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

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.

joygoat, Friday, 22 June 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

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

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 22 June 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I voted "webinar" because it makes me physically ill

bernard snowy, Friday, 22 June 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

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

bernard snowy, Friday, 22 June 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

FOLKSOMINAR

Will M., Friday, 22 June 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

SUBPOENA

KANTLIPS, Friday, 22 June 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

bukkake

milo z, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

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

Øystein, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose it meant something quite different to you before?

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

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?

energy flash gordon, Saturday, 23 June 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

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.

That one guy that quit, Saturday, 23 June 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

one more vote for blogosphere

Just got offed, Saturday, 23 June 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

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

UGGGH

sanskrit, Saturday, 23 June 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

'information superhighway'

That one guy that quit, Saturday, 23 June 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

'web'

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 June 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

CHILD PORN INVESTIGATION

KANTLIPS, Saturday, 23 June 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Forest Pines Mk2, Saturday, 23 June 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

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

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 23 June 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

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

abanana, Saturday, 23 June 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Saturday, 23 June 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

"Bump" is one I rather like.

Øystein, Sunday, 24 June 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

Bump.

libcrypt, Sunday, 24 June 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

"ILX"

M.V., Sunday, 24 June 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

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

ILX System, Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

i have never heard anyone say webinar

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

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

Drooone, Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

I still use "Infobahn" from time to time.

wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

dom dom dom on the infobahn

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

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

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

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

StanM, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

I'm in a webinar!

eating a sausage as I type this (admrl), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

carl agatha, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

a new horror at my place of employment:

'brown-bag webinar'

j., Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)


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