Now that the mid-terms are over let's switch it up and have some fun! I
did one silly little video about “prairie dogging” on YouTube and it
immediately got 36,000 views. Viewers thought it was the “toilet humor” version
(which apparently everyone knows about) but instead it was the “geek humor”
version (which many of you still don’t know about). Didn’t matter… here was
a term that straddled both worlds and in the offline world, it was about
something “dirty” so it generated enough views that Google wanted me to put an
ad on it.
I
make money online with ads but I didn’t bite. I could’ve gone online and
explained every little naughty term there is to be had on the Internet in my
bikini (that’s what I do, track Internet terms and wear bikinis). Or topless,
like the Dutch meteorologists in my motherland do. My BFF and I
are geek girls… we get it, we talk about it, and she’s definitely a hot MILF.
We’ve often thought we should continue my original NetLingo mission about explaining technology from a woman’s point of view on a vlog. We’d be great… even
better than Soledad O'Brien was back in my CNET days. We should probably still
do it, half-clothed of course.
It
was that idea which inspired my little video exercise, mind you “prairie dogging” isn’t
even a sexy term. The funny online explanation is slang for when someone drops something loudly at work in a cube farm and everyone's heads pop up
over the walls to see what's going on. The funny offline explanation is when
you have to take a crap so bad the turd is popping in and out until you get the chance to
release it. Even Planet Mancow didn’t know that definition when I was on national TV
with him; sorry Erich Muller but there’s a NetLingo word for that: 404.
I
decided to investigate the online jargon I’ve been tracking all these years so
I dug deep into my analytics and found, you don't say, America is searching for
sex. Gang, I’m an online pioneer, I’ve been writing about internet jargon and
cyber culture since the beginning --even before 1995 when the web browser was
first commercially released-- and sure enough, y'all talk dirty!
Having
worked in the industry all of my professional life, I read publications and hear terms,
but I’m also an academic researcher, a Social Psychologist, hell I’m even
considered a Linguist, and I’ve never censored anything on netlingo.com. It
cracks me up, I’ll get a smiley submission from an Intel engineer :) and a
detailed net neutrality update from a millennial: We all speak some form of net
lingo online. Unlike Urban Dictionary, NetLingo is still moderated and curated.
But like Urban Dictionary, the sexy themes keep coming in and standing out.
So,
I decided to own it. Give you a taste of what you seem to want. I bit. Now
I’m committed. And I’m gonna bring it. Let’s take a look at the naughty side of our
online communication with the new book “NSFW: The Little Black Book of
Acronyms.” To be able to finally showcase the fun and flirty terms is getting me excited for the holiday season! Were you and your friends NAUGHTY or NICE this year? We've got “NSFW: The Black Book of Acronyms” for your NAUGHTY list, and “Texting Terms” the white version for your NICE list.. take a peek!
Dudes,
peeps, my NetLingo friends, I am loving my new "NSFW" book so don’t
be surprised when you see my digital doppelganger showing up in my social media feeds. I need a
break from all this "Big Tech Politik" Mr. POTUS and chuckle on my
toilet for a change. Better yet I’ll be by the pool sexting my
bae some “Not Safe For Work” fantasies. It totally helps to flip through this
“sexty little book” while I’m doing so... someone get the Kardashians a copy of “NSFW” stat.
- Erin Jansen, Internet Specialist, Social
Psychologist, Founder of NetLingo.com
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