tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286065782024-03-18T20:19:22.988-07:00NetLingo Blog: Let's Talk TechConversations on tech trends and how the internet is changing our lives.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comBlogger349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-30049131559570727712023-12-15T03:00:00.000-08:002023-12-20T09:19:53.161-08:00NETLINGO 2023 WORD OF THE YEAR: AI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6MCnnOGQGEEppIIB2pPwqyNC1PDsDvefb41o7ZQZHs09LTqCn2IYfkHt0RaNGogGCB6JBK5k56egvL4DGokl7qqI0ACJqQsRuLLxyPx1q3aH0e7P4qfWynB49YjOUb7sBjJgH_uT_whFAjI8-FUkOcD3VCsM2T1x5N0abfg1FIoU_17VQUkA5g/s440/ai-woty-2023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="440" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6MCnnOGQGEEppIIB2pPwqyNC1PDsDvefb41o7ZQZHs09LTqCn2IYfkHt0RaNGogGCB6JBK5k56egvL4DGokl7qqI0ACJqQsRuLLxyPx1q3aH0e7P4qfWynB49YjOUb7sBjJgH_uT_whFAjI8-FUkOcD3VCsM2T1x5N0abfg1FIoU_17VQUkA5g/w93-h93/ai-woty-2023.jpg" width="93" /></a>It's inevitable. Robots are going to take over. In addition to hardware bots, software algorithms have now infiltrated our online lives. Artificial intelligence is officially here. From regulation to religion, there's been a wave of AI updates this year, hence it is NetLingo's Word of the Year. Known as the simulation of human intelligence, it's time to learn about this brave new world. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333;">AI has already spawned a host of new lingo including these tech terms: </span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/abcd.php" target="_blank">ABCD</a> - which stands for Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud, Data. From the Chinese government endorsing tech on farms in early 2019, promoting an ABCD of modern farming, this cocktail of artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and data technology is on the rise.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/ai.php" target="_blank">AI</a> - it used to just be a texting acronym that means "As If," now it's the buzzword for artificial intelligence. </span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/aiml.php" target="_blank">AI/ML</a> - this is short for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and it represents an evolution in computer science and data processing concerned with the development of algorithms that can generalize and perform tasks <i>without explicit instructions</i>.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/agi.php" target="_blank">Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)</a> - this refers to software that exhibits human-like intelligence and when faced with an unfamiliar task, AGI will find a solution (or as the tech gurus say, it's "generally smarter than humans").</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/artificial-intelligence.php" target="_blank">artificial intelligence</a> - in addition to AI, it's also part of systems called machine intelligence and refers to computer hardware and software that emulates human intelligence, using reasoning and learning to solve problems. The concept of artificial intelligence was conceived in 1950 by Alan Turing, who used the term "computer intelligence." The concept was renamed "artificial intelligence" in 1955 by John McCarthy.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/artificial-life.php" target="_blank">artificial life</a> - also known as a-life -or- alife, this describes the modeling of complex, lifelike behaviors in computer programs. Artificial life forms can supposedly evolve and <i>produce behaviors not contained within the rules set by the programmers.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/chatbot.php" target="_blank">chatbot</a> - also known as chatterbot, smartbot, talkbot, bot, IM bot, interactive agent, conversational interface, Artificial Conversational Entity, and ChatGPT, this is only the beginning of the way in which everyday people will interact with this technology. It refers to a computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts a micro, conversation-based experience via talk or text. It is designed to convincingly simulate how a human would behave, thereby "passing the Turing test" which is when a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior equal to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/genai.php" target="_blank">GenAI</a> - or Generative Artificial Intelligence, this is an advanced form of artificial intelligence using neural networks to identify the patterns and structures within existing data to generate new and original content.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/sentient-ai.php" target="_blank">sentient AI</a> - And then there is sentient artificial intelligence, also known as sentient robot and sentient machine. Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively, so sentient AI refers to the capacity for artificial intelligence to have subjective perceptions, feelings and experience, including robots and machines.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;">In the AI tech world, there are two views: The doomsday "end of the world" scenarios and the accelerationists' "it's good for technology to evolve" camps. The doomers worry about AI’s potential to cause catastrophic harm, such as mass unemployment and the birth of an all-powerful Artificial General Intelligence that might snuff out humankind on a whim. The accelerationists, on the other hand, want to speed ahead with developing and commercializing generative AI systems before we even understand it. </span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;">One of the biggest threats is <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/deepfake.php" target="_blank">deepfake</a> videos to create <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/fud.php" target="_blank">FUD</a>. The <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/dark-web.php" target="_blank">dark web</a> will utilize intelligence that's not even known yet where only institutions like the military are capable of tracking, hacking and informing our lawmakers. Government regulation is already happening in the European Union where they reached a deal to implement vast new regulations known as the AI Act. The regulations place new levels of scrutiny on companies using AI and include new transparency requirements for AI systems, protections against the spread of misinformation and the use of <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/facial-recognition.php" target="_blank">facial recognition</a> software. </span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;">And then there are humans like Anthony Levandowski who pioneered the self-driving car and penned his Way of the Future. His idea fuses religion and the understanding of artificial intelligence, and raised eyebrows over its focus on worship and the acceptance of a future God developed through computer hardware and software. With AI now in the mainstream, Levandowski said it is time to consider how sophisticated AI systems could help guide humans on moral, ethical, or existential questions that are normally sought out in religions. Basically <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/teotwawki.php" target="_blank">TEOTWAWKI</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;">The evolution of technology is fascinating, and m</span><span style="color: #333333;">y prediction is that AI will become so ubiquitous, there will be AI cable-type trucks driving around to fix your chatbots just like they do for TV.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">Yes, some of you will use AI on a regular basis moving forward, and yes many of you will like it. </span><span style="color: #333333;"> I personally have little interest in additional man-made screen time so I'll bid you a Happy New Year 2024 from the nature-made world on my island, cheers! </span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://erinjansen.com/" style="color: blue;">Erin Jansen</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span>Social Psychologist, Internet Historian, Online Specialist<span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span></span></i><i style="font-size: 10pt;">Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://netlingo.com/" style="color: blue;">NetLingo.com</a></span></i></div><div><i style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></i></div>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-69951798614574034122022-12-15T03:00:00.012-08:002022-12-31T04:39:44.349-08:00NetLingo 2022 Word of the Year: Hybrid Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBd2gTWomDYEFL5gEcYM7o9-L1BV-sisV8JbGJ1IAUTkyo13I6DpfZlhe4SZbJK6yYukXx6N-ztmaH305xe5CUL7LCRrvk7Ufu2BEa5_o1ICQfhHiJvHUDnl75-uGfUvo3KiT9RDfc3P4m-Qcte-slDf6Pix1HLV8DBOv0nMgvXXITEqu7YlI/s110/hybrid-work-woty-2023.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBd2gTWomDYEFL5gEcYM7o9-L1BV-sisV8JbGJ1IAUTkyo13I6DpfZlhe4SZbJK6yYukXx6N-ztmaH305xe5CUL7LCRrvk7Ufu2BEa5_o1ICQfhHiJvHUDnl75-uGfUvo3KiT9RDfc3P4m-Qcte-slDf6Pix1HLV8DBOv0nMgvXXITEqu7YlI/s1600/hybrid-work-woty-2023.jpg" width="110" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">One of my favorite things about tracking internet terms for 30 years now (!) is seeing how the jargon morphs. There are so many words that are a combination of two or more things a.k.a. "hybrids" including the NetLingo Word of the Year for 2022... hybrid work.</span> <p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Hybrid work </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">refers to a flexible work model that supports a blend of in-office and work from home. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Many employers offer employees the autonomy to choose if they want to WFH permanently or "do hybrid work" - split their time between their home office and “The Office.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Working from home went mainstream when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and millions of office workers were confined to their homes. The pandemic didn't create the hybrid work model though, it accelerated the trend which began 2000s when the internet became reliable enough to use at home. By 2022, hybrid work transformed working arrangements and influenced more than just your father's office. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">For example, real estate markets like Boise, ID and Flagstaff, AZ got flooded with white-collar workers from high-cost cities like San Francisco and Seattle, and while remote work was a financial game changer for most of the uprooted professionals, it didn't change local incomes so the real estate market in Boise and Flagstaff became "overvalued" by 76.9% and 65.6%.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Now, 68 percent of employees expect to work from home at least three days a week, according an HP survey of office workers in the U.S. and Canada. This digitization movement has also produced additional trends such as <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/quiet-quitting.php">quiet quitting</a>, the act of not taking your job too seriously so as to focus your time on life outside of the office.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">The term <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/hybrid.php">hybrid</a> was added to NetLingo.com in 1996 to refer to "hybrid search sites" HotBot and InfoSpace haha (I love me some business history and internet culture :) Over the decades "hybrid" morphed to also refer to </span><span style="color: #333333;">hybrid site, hybrid cloud, hybrid model, hybrid company, </span><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/mixed-reality.php">hybrid reality</a>,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cyborg.php">cyborg</a>, <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/neural-networks.php">digital analog hybrid</a>, </span><span style="color: #333333;">and </span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/online-jargon.php">hybrid shorthand</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">And behind all that morphing is one of the original uses of the term hybrid, the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/hfc.php">HFC</a>, (Hybrid Fiber Coax) which is responsible for delivering voice, Internet, cable TV and other digital services to your home and work - only one of the most important functions for everyone nowadays, and the defining factor that enables hybrid work.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Get this, the literal f</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">irst use of the Latin term was in 1600 when the word hybrid came f</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">rom hybrida, a variant of ibrida “mongrel,” meaning “offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”, and was used to refer to the “offspring of plants or animals of a different variety or species”. It's funny but that kind of "weird offspring" derivative makes sense for all of the tech terms mentioned here in some way, (shape or form) lol! Even for hybrid work. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Pajama bottoms with Zoom tops is what our century's version of the mythical half human/half horse creature </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Centaur looks like. Such is our hybrid work/life in the 21st century. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">Happy New Year everyone! </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://erinjansen.com/" style="color: blue;">Erin Jansen</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Social Psychologist, Internet Historian, Online Specialist</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span></span></i><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://netlingo.com/" style="color: blue;">NetLingo.com</a></span></i></div><br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-81382318185904520382021-12-18T03:00:00.003-08:002022-02-24T06:54:12.745-08:00NetLingo 2021 Word of the Year: NFT<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwI4q4fcfeWY1-lpCDpvZrceFiNODxFZeSz6Nu_m35wRRv-clnPmBELODZHwjYVuR4xeIKKMt_IZcDi0aiUnB_xTEKUZv-DcZTMOdBg1OWbI4qgY4hF3YPVDnalmoboudAD0RvHBidnDBPVZOsTUTlhA5vXIKNv3zBl8-kGrMcQsTX9uDvscs=s110" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwI4q4fcfeWY1-lpCDpvZrceFiNODxFZeSz6Nu_m35wRRv-clnPmBELODZHwjYVuR4xeIKKMt_IZcDi0aiUnB_xTEKUZv-DcZTMOdBg1OWbI4qgY4hF3YPVDnalmoboudAD0RvHBidnDBPVZOsTUTlhA5vXIKNv3zBl8-kGrMcQsTX9uDvscs" width="110" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">People ask me all the time, WTF is an NFT? </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #000033;">NFT stands for Non Fungible Token which is an individual, unique digital asset held on the</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #000033;"> </span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/blockchain.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">blockchain</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #000033;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #000033;">to convey ownership of a property. Non-Fungible Tokens are easily exchangeable and include multiple digital formats. </span></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">An NFT property could be a <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/digital-asset.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">digital asset</a>, for example virtual real estate in an <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/online-community.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">online community</a>, a costume in a <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/video-game.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">video game</a>, an artistic <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/image.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">image</a>, digital <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/content.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">content</a>. The property could also be something <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/in-real-life.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">in real life</a>, for example actual real estate, an actual painting, a seat at a live concert, the first edition of a book. The property could also be a hybrid, such as who can rent a room in a cooperative working space or time share. The digital tokens, or certificates of ownership, live on the blockchain and can be bought and sold. NFTs are changing how we think about digital information, art, and ownership. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">“Non fungible” means something is unique and can’t be replaced with something else (for example if I gave you a signed George Brett baseball card and you gave me a signed Rolling Stones poster, we wouldn’t have the same thing), whereas “fungible” is something you can trade for something else and have the exact same thing (such as money and bitcoins because if you gave me $20 and I gave you $20 we would have the same thing). </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">The "token" is the digital nature of the asset that lives on the blockchain. Think of blocks as individual transactions or records that are strung together on a single list called a chain or ledger. Blockchain can store anything digital, including signatures and intellectual property as well as cryptocurrency. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">To "mint" an NFT means to generate it, for example: “It was a hard mint, meaning the token cannot be changed, as opposed to a soft mint, meaning the token is changeable.” Once created, then you sell it. </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cryptocurrency.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">Cryptocurrency</a> companies that enable NFT transactions are the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/e-wallet.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">payment platforms</a> and the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/platform.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #293646; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_parent">platforms</a> that generate and maintain the NFT. NFT platforms include Rarible, OpenSea, SuperRare, Nifty Gateway, Foundation, VIV3, BakerySwap, Axie Marketplace and NFT ShowRoom. NFT payment platforms include MetaMask, Torus, Portis, WalletConnect, Coinbase, MyEtherWallet and Fortmatic.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">The first-known NFT is considered to be Kevin McCoy’s 2014 image “Quantum” and the first projects began appearing on the Ethereum Blockchain in the ERC20 standard. The technology didn’t start hitting mainstream attention until in 2021 when people were buying and selling an estimated 85,787 NFTs —at a total value of $5.8 million— a day, according to DappRadar. On March 11, 2021, a blockchain-based digital artwork sold at Christie’s for a history-making $69 million, putting Beeple, its creator, among the top three most valuable living artists. If you fancy yourself an early adopter, it sounds like it's time to mint your own blonde babies, or at least check out some bored apes. </p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i>- <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://erinjansen.com/" style="color: blue;">Erin Jansen</a></span>, Internet Specialist, </i><i><i>Social Psychologist, </i>Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://netlingo.com/" style="color: blue;">NetLingo.com</a></span></i></div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Subscribe to the NetLingo Blog via Email or RSS <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/netlingoblog" style="color: blue;">here</a></span> </i>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-27286687583624429342020-12-22T03:00:00.011-08:002022-02-14T08:40:04.418-08:00NetLingo 2020 Word of the Year: Zoom<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/zoom.php"></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvXS0bFypBp1EwuAmcYBiNbyHCMoXzLDhUJRq2ydrN5-LaOugjgqUPSMkcYkdXmazXsKGSaZ4apYspH8wFlc1s9rjWc_7zHY0fPAt0XjZ6a7h7kv1gVwhM9u6sgH4zwVCwdaq9m_tLt3J9PGSemCykLMkCGRq4ReYdpVrVn0RT-XjmJ5rnCf0=s110" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvXS0bFypBp1EwuAmcYBiNbyHCMoXzLDhUJRq2ydrN5-LaOugjgqUPSMkcYkdXmazXsKGSaZ4apYspH8wFlc1s9rjWc_7zHY0fPAt0XjZ6a7h7kv1gVwhM9u6sgH4zwVCwdaq9m_tLt3J9PGSemCykLMkCGRq4ReYdpVrVn0RT-XjmJ5rnCf0" width="110" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/zoom.php">Zoom</a> video conferencing software usage exploded in 2020, also known as the "year of the Covid-19 pandemic." It was many people's lifeline to work and friends because it combined video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration and let people <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/wfh.php">WFH</a>. Like many pervasive Internet products, Zoom eventually became a verb, for example "Let's Zoom this afternoon so I can see exactly what you're talking about" and of course it spawned it's own jargon with the advent of Zoombombing, or disrupting video calls with violent, pornographic or offensive content. </div><div><br /></div><div>There's clearly no competition for the NetLingo 2020 word of the year as Zoom surpassed 300 million daily Zoom meeting participants in 2020, a 50% increase from a month prior (200 million). For comparison, in December 2019, Zoom reported 10 million meeting participants. </div></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i>- <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://erinjansen.com/" style="color: blue;">Erin Jansen</a></span>, Internet Specialist, </i><i><i>Social Psychologist, </i>Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://netlingo.com/" style="color: blue;">NetLingo.com</a></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i style="font-size: 13px;">Subscribe to the NetLingo Blog via Email or RSS <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/netlingoblog" style="color: blue;">here</a></span> </i></div>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-12807170294262963502019-12-21T03:00:00.006-08:002022-02-14T08:25:30.906-08:00NetLingo 2019 Word of the Year: woke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3ye6Ijdn7mDTLBySQBqzP3_JdSNNFq73FVMqVYZ_9sgY5rM_nce8F3Dt6ChVt8w_pwaE8wvEMb19uymoHLBxfo5duRLXUWekF9LXgXW_uoZI-L4NqAatZTnF-KFEjzZKGDx1tSN-ihJC6A_TQoBYH9QmJp3O3jGyQNxpQwLaW81vgTMS9JlI=s110" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3ye6Ijdn7mDTLBySQBqzP3_JdSNNFq73FVMqVYZ_9sgY5rM_nce8F3Dt6ChVt8w_pwaE8wvEMb19uymoHLBxfo5duRLXUWekF9LXgXW_uoZI-L4NqAatZTnF-KFEjzZKGDx1tSN-ihJC6A_TQoBYH9QmJp3O3jGyQNxpQwLaW81vgTMS9JlI" width="110" /></a></div>It's always interesting to view history in retrospect. The year of 2019 brought about massive changes and in the minds of many people, you were considered either "woke" or not. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">If you're "woke" you know this word was having a major mainstream moment in 2018, but it wasn't until 2019 that <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/woke.php">woke</a> penetrated politics, media, technology and entertainment. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Also known as "left wokeness" because the ultra-liberal movement of people who live and die by politics started using it</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> to describe a person's awareness of a particular topic, current affairs or social issues. According to them, the more woke one is, the more knowledgeable and empathetic one is about a person or issue. It was </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">seen in social media posts and tweets characterized by <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/snowflake.php">snowflake</a> behavior. But groupthink ran rampant and suddenly, everything was getting criticized. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">The term comes from something suddenly springing to life, either out of alarm or determination, as in "You’re woke, so now things are, you know, real." It's also known as an</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> alert to racial prejudice and discrimination that originated in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). Apparently since the Blacks and the libs started to own it (again), American conservatives started using woke primarily as an insult. It's deemed the NetLingo word of the year this year because almost everyone is using it online. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i>- <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://erinjansen.com/" style="color: blue;">Erin Jansen</a></span>, Internet Specialist, </i><i><i>Social Psychologist, </i>Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://netlingo.com/" style="color: blue;">NetLingo.com</a></span></i></div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Subscribe to the NetLingo Blog via Email or RSS <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/netlingoblog" style="color: blue;">here</a></span> </i><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-46475627036791472662019-11-24T12:16:00.003-08:002021-10-27T13:55:45.932-07:00About Time... Merriam-Webster adds "Brand-New" Words in 2019<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUAaei0QQWtcRAfzN5WX54HIfdBaty3_i76X8vNygKsTh7P8eKlRfv-1MTXBZ6nL5uNOLx_k04cQ-VwN_JOFjmYP84YPVYJldyiFS3I0AZrR4kgi1a77xVaKavXSYiiIdeCmyuw/s1600/netlingo+slang.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUAaei0QQWtcRAfzN5WX54HIfdBaty3_i76X8vNygKsTh7P8eKlRfv-1MTXBZ6nL5uNOLx_k04cQ-VwN_JOFjmYP84YPVYJldyiFS3I0AZrR4kgi1a77xVaKavXSYiiIdeCmyuw/s1600/netlingo+slang.jpg" /></a> Brand new? I think not... I'm surprised the following terms were just added in 2019 to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary! <br />
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According to Molly Pennington, Merriam-Webster added over 600 new words to the dictionary in 2019, and as is always the case with language, there are old words with new meanings on their list too, check out the full list <a href="https://www.rd.com/culture/new-words-dictionary/">here</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/snowflake.php">Snowflake</a> - On a molecular level, snowflakes are all basically the same, even though you may think they’re each unique and special. Snowflake also has a few definitions beyond, “a flake or crystal of snow.” The term has become disparaging slang for both someone treated as precious and special or one who thinks they should be treated as such. Yes, snowflake is a grand insult. If you are called this term, the user thinks you’re too sensitive or that you find yourself precious. It works the other way around, too—get a look at these 11 words and phrases that used to be insults but are now compliments.<br />
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<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/page-views.php">Page view</a> - Gotta get those clicks! A page view is a compound term of the Internet age. Page view is an example of “lexicalization,” because it’s a phrase that now expresses a concept: “an instance of a user viewing an individual page or website.” Page views are crucial because they insinuate engagement with info that’s on a web page or site. <br />
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<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/gig-economy.php">Gig economy</a> - The gig economy means that work comes from freelance, part-time, or contract jobs or gigs. While a gig economy offers lots of flexibility for workers, it does not provide the stability and assured growth that secure, full-time positions used to do. Coined in 2019, Merriam-Webster offers that the gig economy uses temps or freelancers, “primarily in the service sector.” However, over 70 percent of academic teaching positions are now part-time, temporary, or adjunct, and the gig economy affects many other sectors as well.<br />
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<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/swole.php">Swole</a> - Do you work out? If so, you probably look swole. The term basically derives from swelling or swollen, but it’s a positive adjective used to describe top-notch or particularly aesthetic musculature. As in, Robert Pattinson as the new Batman is looking swole. <br />
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<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/egot.php">EGOT</a> - Very few people have achieved peak EGOT—the ultimate threshold for performance accomplishment. Only 15 performers have reached it so far, and that list includes Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mel Brooks. However, there are 40 performers on deck to become EGOT with just one more win. The term is an acronym using the first letters of the awards Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Once you win one of each, you’ve got an EGOT.<br />
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<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/stan.php">Stan</a> - Stans have been around as long as celebrities, but this term for an obsessive and over-the-top groupie just made it into the dictionary. Way back in 2000, Eminem (of rap fame) had a song about an extremely devoted fan, “Stan.” And the term was born. Merriam-Webster notes that it’s often used in a “disparaging” way, but that’s usually in the form of self-awareness about a star or franchise’s epic greatness and the known insanity (instanity?!) of adoring it. Consider the way Game of Thrones stans still obsess over various dragon minutiae even though the series has ended.<br />
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And so on... these words have been
in NetLingo for years! C'mon Merriam-Webster, time to subscribe to my <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/netlingoblog">NetLingo blog</a> :)<br />
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-16690920547517247462019-10-15T06:00:00.000-07:002019-11-24T11:41:14.084-08:00Big Box Stores = America's New Oligopoly<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJsiszxyaiGczDglT6Gye68ix5i1Wt24lKg8uS_ZyVdAwPNLLnrW20V7dBrF1J1AvYfpt8OHMvRIgGOtnrwIvYKhAQgdwZ2brDUbo6GXNShLm-w0Mk1WNUwoo54-lsq2TNzy_Tw/s1600/netlingo+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJsiszxyaiGczDglT6Gye68ix5i1Wt24lKg8uS_ZyVdAwPNLLnrW20V7dBrF1J1AvYfpt8OHMvRIgGOtnrwIvYKhAQgdwZ2brDUbo6GXNShLm-w0Mk1WNUwoo54-lsq2TNzy_Tw/s1600/netlingo+blog.jpg" /></a><span>And like most things that end in "opoly" it's the consumers, who pay the price. What is an oligopoly you ask? It refers to </span><span><span>a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers,</span></span><span> and according</span><span> to
David Leonhardt in The New York Times, a </span>
new era of oligopoly might be costing you more than $5,000 a year.<br />
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In industry after industry, a few companies have
grown so large that they have the power to keep prices high and wages
low. The outsize growth of <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/gafa.php">GAFA</a> (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) is only
one example. Most Americans also have a choice between only two
internet providers or four major airlines, while Home Depot and Lowe’s
have displaced local hardware stores and regional pharmacies have
been swallowed by national giants. There's even a NetLingo word for it: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/big-box-store.php">big box store</a>.<br />
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This isn’t some natural result of
globalization and technological innovation, said Thomas Philippon, an
economics professor at New York University. Europe has been far better
at containing the growth of these few companies, because it has been implementing market-based ideas that Americans helped pioneer. The
European Union created an impressively independent competition agency
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lobbyists—keep finding ways to justify mergers with dubious theories
about money-saving efficiencies. Broadband service in the U.S. now
costs $67.69 per month, far more than in France ($31.14) or England
($39.58). The typical cellphone bill is $61.85 for 5GB of data, versus
just $14.95 in France or $18.30 in Sweden. Meanwhile, capital investment
stagnates. Meanwhile, the demise of the sole proprietorship was in part due to being <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/amazonned.php">Amazonned</a>, yet a few years ago, Google opened it's first <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/brick-and-mortar.php" target="_parent">brick-and-mortar</a> store in London. All this should inspire action, but clearly we have a
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The DOJ joins the Federal Trade Commission and Congress in examining how these tech firms accumulated market power and whether they acted to reduce competition. The agency has already begun meeting industry experts to learn the kinds of harm the companies have caused, the clearest sign yet that the longtime arguments that helped shield the tech giants from antitrust scrutiny are eroding.<br />
<br />The big question about the tech giants, according to Bloomberg, is whether these companies have used their success to cheat their way into more success. The answer is a resounding YES. Take Google for instance, with the development of their Answer boxes, they've funneled web traffic and ad revenue away from websites because now users can view the content directly on Google. <br />
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The giants will protest, as they always do, that they offer free services to consumers, and competition could make them die at any moment. They’ll wave the flag and say their success is a credit to the best of America. But the antitrust cops don’t care about these kinds of displays. Yes, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have built worthy businesses, but they still have a responsibility to play fair with their power and keep the competition fair for the good of consumers.<br />
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-44084111347880077112019-08-01T08:23:00.002-07:002019-08-01T08:28:02.948-07:00Our Language Is Evolving, 'Because Internet'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVBkBzWzf7KsXYo_dcHqhC0Q2FBuPn4dTTUbuYbBNVYwmDM8DJ8oZi_BTDysTscI6pHAkba5JL9gRBh7SDDE9iOGN8LvA1C3etdHz4TF64lZbKfMkF4JIdGNudaVft_2gGx9Zsw/s1600/because-internet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVBkBzWzf7KsXYo_dcHqhC0Q2FBuPn4dTTUbuYbBNVYwmDM8DJ8oZi_BTDysTscI6pHAkba5JL9gRBh7SDDE9iOGN8LvA1C3etdHz4TF64lZbKfMkF4JIdGNudaVft_2gGx9Zsw/s1600/because-internet.jpg" /></a>What a fantastic book review, <i>Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,</i> as seen on <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/31/747020219/our-language-is-evolving-because-internet">NPR.com</a>! I am super impressed with linguist Gretchen McCulloch's insights and how they relate to all of the potential for miscommunication online - which is what I've been preaching as well. If you are one among us who has wondered whether a message in ALL CAPS meant it was urgent, or furious, or enthusiastic, then my website <a href="http://netlingo.com/">NetLingo.com</a> and her book can help you!<br />
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Below is Gretchen's interview where she says the "new" rules, are "emergent..." so, for example, "The old rules are these top-down, 'here's how you use an
apostrophe,' 'here's how you use a semicolon' type of thing." "The new rules are about: How are other people going to interpret
your tone of voice? ... The old rules are about using language to
demonstrate intellectual superiority, and the new rules are about using
language to create connection between people."<br />
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Gretchen says a
lot of the confusion stems from the fact that people read Internet
writing differently, depending on when they first went online. Here are a few excellent examples, enjoy!<br />
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<b>On the changing use of LOL</b><br />
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There's
a difference between how these different groups use "LOL" ... the
acronym which initially stood for "laughing out loud." And if you talk
to people in some of these older generations who are, you know, have
been using the Internet for 20 years but came online in a less social
space, they see it: OK, here's an acronym; they're told it is an
acronym; it must mean "laughing out loud." And so they still use it as
actual laughter. Whereas when you talk to the youngest groups, LOL may
have meant laughter for a very short period of time, but that laughter
quickly became aspirational — you know, "Oh, that is kind of funny." And
then it became not even real laughter at all. It became more a marker
of irony or softening or "I'm not angry at you," "I'm not feeling
hostile" — you know, these additional subtle social meanings.<br />
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And
for the youngest group of people, there's no literal meaning left to
LOL at all. ... It's a filler that specifically indicates that there's
some sort of double meaning to be found. ... If I say something that
could be interpreted as rude or hostile like, "Oh, I hate you" — if I
say "I hate you LOL," now I'm joking, so it's fine. I'm not laughing out
loud while I hate you, like in a malicious sort of way; I'm undermining
my message and saying "I hate you LOL [but I'm not serious about it]."
But in the inverse, if you say "I love you LOL," that doesn't soften the
message any more. Now that means "Oh no, I fake-love you," like I'm
being quite mean about that. So it's not always a softener — it just
hints toward some sort of double meaning, which could be good or bad.<br />
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<b>On the passive-aggressive period</b><br />
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The period
is such an interesting new battleground for Internet language because
there's definitely a traditional use which is still found in formal
writing. You know, the book contains many periods, and they're not
passive-aggressive because it's a formal context. But in an informal
context, you don't need the period anymore to distinguish between one
sentence or one phrase and the next because you're just going to hit
"send" in a chat context. You can just send the message. ... And that
makes your messages easier to read than this massive wall of text,
particularly on a tiny screen.<br />
And yet that means that the
period is now open and available for taking on other sorts of meanings
and other connotations. And one of those is that very sense of formality
— and you know when you read a formal sentence ... and making your
voice deeper at the end of the sentence, like you conventionally do with
a period in formal writing, adds a note of solemnity or finality or
seriousness to what you're saying. ... But the problem is if you say
"OK, sounds good." — and you add that note of seriousness — now you've
got positive words and serious punctuation, and the clash between them
is what creates that sense of passive aggression.<br />
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<b>On the construction "because [noun]," which gives the book its title (</b><b><i>Because Internet</i></b><b>)</b><br />
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One
of the things I really love about Internet language these days is what I
call stylistic verbal incoherence mirroring emotional incoherence. So
when you're feeling upset or excited or angry or any of these extreme
emotions or overwhelmed by how cute something is when you're feeling any
of these extreme emotions you make your language get artfully
disordered to express that. And so for the title of the book <i>Because Internet</i>,
saying: OK, I'm going to truncate this. Instead of "because of the
Internet," I'm going to make the shorter version "because Internet" — or
"because homework" or "because weather" or any of these types of
things, I'm going to make the shorter version because the answer is so
self-evident that I can reduce it into this less coherent form. And
you'll understand that I'm nodding at this bigger phenomenon that we can
share.<br />
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<b>On keysmash (i.e. "asdf;lkjasdlf" or similar to represent frustration)</b><br />
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For the youngest group of people, there's no literal meaning left to LOL at all. One new trend that I've seen that I really wish I had been able to
spend more space on in the book is the continued evolution of keysmash.
So, keysmash is when you mash your fingers against a keyboard to, you
know, convey this incoherent emotion. And what I noted in <i>Because Internet</i>
is that people have specific stylistic ways of keysmashing. He will
write ASDF, etc. and they smash on the home row of keys. And I did a
survey, and I asked people: Do you ever adjust or retype your keysmash
if it doesn't quite look right to you? And most people said yes. Even
though this is random, they still retype it because they want it to look
like the right kind of social randomness.<br />
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But what I was just
noticing as I was writing the book, and didn't quite have enough data to
include, is that keysmashing has also been changing as we use mobile
phones more. Because when you keysmash on a full mechanical keyboard you
do have your fingers on the home row with ASDF and so on. But when you
keysmash on a smartphone keyboard, you have your thumbs over like GHSDSK
something like that so instead of going ASDF from left or right you
might end up with like SKSKSK or GHGHGH, something going back and forth
between your thumbs near the center of the keyboard. And so, the way we
keysmash has been changing partly in response to the social pressure,
partly in response to the devices we're using. And it's such an
interesting example for me because it looks like we're just being
monkeys typing randomly on a keyboard producing something totally
incoherent, and yet there are social patterns to it. There are real
linguistic trends to keysmash — even something that looks so random.<br />
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<b>On how to avoid misunderstandings</b><br />
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We
talk to each other. You can ask people what they mean. ... I mean, you
don't have to talk to people by picking up the phone — you can talk to
people by saying, "What did you mean by that?" or "Are you actually mad
at me?" in the text message. ... Sometimes I say this is associated with
older people, and people take that as a criticism. But I think it's
just as incumbent on younger people to say: Maybe I shouldn't be
overinterpreting hostility or passive-aggression ... maybe I should just
be interpreting this with the context of "I know this person is older
and so they're not actually being passive-aggressive at me." I think the
increased understanding can go both ways.<br />
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It's OK to be a bit
older. I've accepted I'm not a teenager anymore. ... It doesn't mean
that just because this is what the kids are doing means we all have to
talk like that. But having increased understanding across different
generations can help people avoid miscommunications in their text
messaging — which is really what I'm trying to do with <i>Because Internet. </i><i><i>Special thanks to Mallory Yu and Emily Kopp who produced and edited the
broadcast version of this interview and Patrick Jarenwattananon and Beth
Novey who adapted it for the Web. </i></i><br />
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-31131779456204550072019-07-17T13:04:00.001-07:002019-07-18T07:00:21.481-07:00Good for France for Approving Tax On Big Tech <div dir="ltr">
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They're doing this because French officials have been frustrated that digital companies are able to avoid taxes by establishing their European headquarters in
countries such as Ireland and the Netherlands, which offer corporations
low tax rates, and France says it will roll back its tax if an EU levy takes
effect. The European Commission calculates that digital businesses pay an effective tax rate of 9.5%, compared with 23.2% paid by traditional companies.<br />
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So the point is that France isn't exactly
targeting the U.S., it's trying to establish norms in the EU. So if Arkansas and North Dakota want to give
GAFA bigger tax breaks on "Federal" laws, (not just their state) it would
be illegal in the U.S. States cannot exempt Federal, so what this means is that the EU is
still working out their "Union" and this is one of the areas.<br />
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Apparently the United States is very concerned that the digital services
tax unfairly targets American companies, according to U.S. Trade
Representative Robert
Lighthizer. How is the U.S. threatening to retaliate? Last Wednesday,
President Trump ordered a probe of the French tax. It's a sign that
another trade war (like the one between the U.S. and China) could be
stirring – except that it's with one of America's allies, and in this
case, it's U.S. companies that are seen as the tax dodges. There's a NetLingo word for that Mr. POTUS: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/boil-the-ocean.php">boil the ocean</a>. </div>
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I
think the EU has every right to do this and it's the OECD that is helping move the world to understanding the necessity
of International Tax Laws. The U.S. or China or whomever, is making profits off
of French citizens and should be taxed and vice versa... the question is,
at what rate? </div>
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-82420616700569355962019-06-03T08:32:00.003-07:002019-06-06T12:03:06.056-07:00From Airplane Mode to Zombieing - The New Top 50 Online Dating Terms <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmkfRI6WSU4L_DLJotw1LfwOYVoRVNEG8iPirg3RUc7-PlmYe2DllWO_S-h8IwUwSYKgI2yTwMhP-_VxPGgn6lrBtiKHIJ6vV1JPfVCghFU_hl1THQRTXPLItBADJY1P5dYokTw/s1600/online-dating.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmkfRI6WSU4L_DLJotw1LfwOYVoRVNEG8iPirg3RUc7-PlmYe2DllWO_S-h8IwUwSYKgI2yTwMhP-_VxPGgn6lrBtiKHIJ6vV1JPfVCghFU_hl1THQRTXPLItBADJY1P5dYokTw/s1600/online-dating.jpg" /></a><br />
Lately I've received a huge influx of online dating jargon so I just
had to compile this crazy new Top 50 List of Online Dating Terms! Back in the day, online dating was the largest segment of paid content on the Web (other than you guessed it, online porn). As Executive Editor of NetLingo, I knew the online dating jargon was proliferating but I had no idea how funny, yet super insensitive, it's become... check it out! How many of these things have happened to you?<br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/airplane-mode.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">airplane mode</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - when someone cuts themselves off from the world by not
checking their smartphone or social media.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/bae.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">bae</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - An acronym that means Before Anyone Else... there’s
also beob (babe) and baesbo (so back off).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/baeless.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">baeless</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - One who is single, usually refers to a millennial.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/banksying.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">banksying</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - It's when you're going to break-up with someone and decide to plan an
elaborate act far in advance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/benching.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">benching</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Someone who is kept on the sides just in case it doesn't work out
with the person you’re already dating.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/bird-boxed.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">bird boxed</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - From the Netflix movie, it’s when someone you’re dating treats you
badly and you’re blind to it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/bonk.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">bonk</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - It used to mean to have sex or hook up in
generation x lingo, but in generation y lingo it means you’re too tired!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/breadcrumbing.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">breadcrumbing</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Giving a person just enough attention so they’ll keep
interest, but you don't have to invest in a relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/buzzerflies.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">buzzerflies</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - The feeling you get when your phone buzzes, and it is
potentially the special someone you want to hear from.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/caking.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">caking</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When you’re extra sweet to someone you’re really interested in; flirting,
either on the phone or in person. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/career-zoned.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">career-zoned</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When someone rejects you romantically but wants to
connect professionally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/caspering.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">caspering</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - A variation of ghosting but doing it nicely by letting people down
gently before you ghost them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/catfish.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">catfish</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Slang for making romantic online overtures using a fake identity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cohabidating.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">cohabidating</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When two people are newly dating and move in together
for financial reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cushioning.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">cushioning</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - It's when you're in a relationship with someone, but you still chat
and flirt with other people on the side. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/draculaing.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">draculaing</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - It's when people only hear from the people they are dating at night. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/dtr.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">DTR</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> – It means Define The Relationship, that big awkward chat where people
discuss "where things are going."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/exaggerdate.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">exaggerdate</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - A portmanteau to describe the act of embellishing a
date so as to suggest it went way better than it did.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/faux-beau.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">faux beau</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - A guy who acts like a boyfriend, but just as a ruse to continue his
string of hookups.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">20.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/feels.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">feels</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Millingo for feelings. Sample this, "OMG! I’m starting to have
the feels for my umfriend."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">21.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/force-quit.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">force quit</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - In online dating it's slang for breaking up, as in "They force
quit that relationship last week, about time.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">22.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/gaslighting.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">gaslighting</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Slang for when an abuser manipulates in such a way as
to make a victim question his or her sanity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">23.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/going-down-in-the-dms.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">going down in the DMs</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When two people begin flirting
through direct messages on a social media platform.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">24.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/grandeing.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">grandeing</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When a person is grateful for their past lovers and the things they
taught them, inspired by Thank U, Next.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">25.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/haunting.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">haunting</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When they aren’t in your life anymore but linger on with their
digital presence on your social media.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">26.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/heart-bargain.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">heart bargain</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - An intellectual who tries to reason their way into or
out of an emotional decision.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">27.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/hsay.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">HSAY</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - As in How Single Are You? Many will say they’re single but there is
often someone texting them good morning...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">28.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/instabait.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">instabait</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Uploading Instagram stories to prod a FOMO-prone crush to get in
touch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">29.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/instagator.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">instagator</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Using Instagram to make a relationship public or to push it along
further.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">30.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/instagrandstanding.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">instagrandstanding</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> – Posting photos and videos to your
Instagram story tailored to appeal to a specific person.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">31.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/iphony.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">iPhony</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Online jargon that describes when someone constantly tells you they
will text you but you never hear from them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">32.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/kittenfish.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">kittenfish</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Less drastic than catfish, it’s when someone uses steps to make
someone else like them better.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">33.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/on-ice.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">on ice</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When you decide to pause the pace of a relationship and chill out for
minute, you're putting it “on ice.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">34.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/on-the-team.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">on the team</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - A dating candidate squad, singles should have three in
rotation until you decide to come off the market.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">35.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/popsicle.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">popsicle</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - It's when your instinct is to play it the opposite of cool, but you
try too hard to play hard to get.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">36.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/romanceting.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">romanceting</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - It involves texting words or images, but instead of
demanding sex, you express appreciation and admiration.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">37.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/scrooging.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">scrooging</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When you break up with your girlfriend or boyfriend just before the
holidays so you don’t have to buy a gift.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">38.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/situationship.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">situationship</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - It's when you're not in a committed relationship but
you can’t exactly say you’re single either.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">39.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/slow-fade.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">slow fade</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When you decide you don't want to continue dating someone, and you
slowly start becoming less available.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">40.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/snack.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">snack</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Slang for a very attractive person, usually a female.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">41.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/snap-trap.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Snap trap</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - If you’ve sent texts but bae doesn’t reply, you then Snapchat them
and if your SO opens it, they’re trapped.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">42.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/so-stalemate.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">SO stalemate</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - In a relationship, it's when neither party will start
the DTR (define-the-relationship) conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">43.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/social-squatter.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">social squatter</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Someone who breaks up with you but
wants to keep seeing your friends platonically (!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">44.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/soul-mining.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">soul-mining</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When someone tries to cram three months of emotional
intimacy into your first three hours together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">45.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/stashing.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">stashing</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Stashing means to date someone, while not telling anyone about them.
It's like having a guilty secret.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">46.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/textual-chemistry.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">textual chemistry</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When your text connection is hot off-the-charts
but in person, your chemistry barely registers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">47.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/three-dot-disappearing-act.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">three-dot disappearing act</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - ...The act of starting to type a
text message on your smartphone and then stopping...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">48.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/throning.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">throning</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - When a person dates someone to elevate his or her own social status,
wealth or reputation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">49.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/you-turn.php"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">you-turn</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> - Slang for someone who goes from one extreme relationship to the next
in the blink of an eye.</span></div>
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“It’s time to break up Facebook,” said Chris Hughes in The New York Times.
“It’s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard” with Mark
Zuckerberg, and a decade since I left the company. In that time, Mark’s
power has become “unprecedented and un-American” and his company a
“leviathan that crowds out entrepreneurship and restricts consumer
choice.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren has advocated for policies that would
bust up Big Tech, and I’m joining the growing chorus calling for the
government to step in. Mark’s “focus on growth led him to sacrifice
security and civility for clicks.” Most worrisome is the control he
exerts over the algorithms that determine what gets displayed on the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/news-feed.php">news feed</a>: “There is no precedent for his ability to monitor, organize,
and even censor the conversations of 2 billion people.” The government
needs to unwind the mergers of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp before
they become too intertwined.<br />
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Rooting for Facebook is like rooting for the New England Patriots, said Shira Ovide in <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">Bloomberg.com</span>.
“But I worry that ‘Break up Facebook’ has become a catchall.” We need
to better understand the root problems and prescribe appropriate fixes
“before we all back a Standard Oil–style dismantlement” of the tech
giants. The argument that Facebook, for instance, can squash all rivals
doesn’t really hold true: Facebook missed the popularity of Snapchat and
TikTok, while Apple and Google “remain the front doors to smartphones.”
Breaking up Facebook would just create “fiercer wars for our attention
and data,” said Ezra Klein in <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">Vox.com</span>.
The problem is not that “Facebook is blocking competition in its
sector.” It’s that the social networks compete to capture our attention
and data with addictive algorithms and toxic content. (Right! There's a NetLingo word for that: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/brain-hacking.php">brain hacking</a>.) Breaking up
Facebook doesn’t solve the real issue: The “incentives that shaped
Facebook—and Instagram, and Twitter, and Snapchat, and YouTube—lead to
dangerous products.”<br />
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Sure, everyone is disappointed with Facebook, said Nick Gillespie in <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">Reason.com</span>.
That’s how things go with new technologies. First, the utopian stage,
“when we’re all jazzed up about the possibilities of a new innovation.”
Next, the dystopian period, “when we attribute all our ills to the new
thing—TV, or the web, or social media.” Last comes the stage “when we
put the technology in its proper place.” With social media, “we’re
clearly in the second phase and almost certainly heading to the third.”
We’re all growing tired of how much these sites demand our attention.
But the idea that government will do a better job of fixing what’s wrong
with them is “risible.” Many of Facebook’s users have already found a
way to battle all-powerful Zuckerberg and his “unstoppable” Death Star:
They’re “simply walking away.” <br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://erinjansen.com/">Erin Jansen</a></span>,
Internet Specialist, </span></i><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Social Psychologist, </span></i>Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://netlingo.com/">NetLingo.com</a></span></span></i></div>
<i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Subscribe
to the NetLingo Blog via Email or RSS <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/netlingoblog">here</a></span></span></i><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> | Subscribe to The Week magazine <a href="https://theweek.com/">here</a></span></i>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-59202695779046630632019-04-30T06:30:00.000-07:002019-04-30T06:30:00.154-07:00YouTube's Porn & Conspiracy Problems: Fix Your Recommendation Engine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ctIw_2vqY7SdKTH6ZgTPgGcxbcX7Gn-zMzlOFd7Gx9XK7XgesTZ-92vjwHMBgSinHkDbQkYNHvrjCaBgdum_Hdr1lpvDJjRGUook2_2cSAWFijzI1z8CxICLlGtXRKGV6ytZ-Q/s1600/youtube+video+down.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ctIw_2vqY7SdKTH6ZgTPgGcxbcX7Gn-zMzlOFd7Gx9XK7XgesTZ-92vjwHMBgSinHkDbQkYNHvrjCaBgdum_Hdr1lpvDJjRGUook2_2cSAWFijzI1z8CxICLlGtXRKGV6ytZ-Q/s1600/youtube+video+down.jpg" /></a>YouTube was under fire again in early March, when a video blogger named Matt Watson detailed how pedophiles can enter a “wormhole” of YouTube videos to see “footage of children in sexually suggestive positions” according to CNET.com. They can then jump from video to video, helped by YouTube’s recommendation engine, and fill them with lewd comments. Oh yeah, there's an old NetLingo word for that: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/flame-bait.php" target="_blank">flame bait</a>.<br />
<br />
In response, brands such as Disney, AT&T, and Epic Games pulled their ads from YouTube, and the company responded by banning more than 400 accounts. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time that Google-owned YouTube has had this kind of child-safety flare-up. In 2017 alone, disturbing knockoffs appeared on the YouTube Kids platform that depicted Disney and Marvel characters in troubling ways; then sexually explicit comments appeared under videos of kids’ gymnastics. “In response to those scandals, CEO Susan Wojcicki overhauled YouTube’s safety guidelines.” Yet two years later, the same problems keep cropping up.<br /><br />It’s not just the comments that are problematic for YouTube, said The New York Times. The platform has been reckoning with the vast troves of <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/disinformation.php" target="_blank">disinformation</a> and extreme content it harbors, such as conspiracy videos and hoaxes that are popular with millions of viewers. Here, again, the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/recommendation-engine.php" target="_blank">recommendation engine</a> is part of the problem: It sends viewers of misinformation to similar videos with more misinformation.<br />
<br />
Conspiracy theories and viral hoaxes top the list” of recommendations for viewers of many popular channels. Young people repeatedly battered by these recommendations often start to reject mainstream sources. To fix this, YouTube needs to recognize how deep these problems run and realize that any successful effort may look less like a simple algorithm tweak, and more like deprogramming a generation. <br />
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Most of that sounds well and good (not the obscuring of data part) as our current definition of what a business should do, there's even a NetLingo word for it: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/monetizing-eyeballs.php" target="_blank">moneytizing eyeballs</a>.<br />
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Until you get to the part that Facebook engineered a way to collect Android users' data without having to alert them, and Zuckerberg personally approved cutting off a video-sharing app's access to Facebook because it was a competitor to Instagram (which they own). The app, called Vine and loved by many, was eventually forced to shut down. C'mon executives of Big Tech, speak out! Especially you spiritual ones... there's more than enough to go around. <br />
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In fact, the company has become a potent symbol of American inequality but they are moving fast to head off attacks, and sometimes by co-opting the liberal agenda, like by raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour. <br />
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But Amazon is popular in Virginia and that doesn't surprise the people in Roanoke, VA according to the Times. Polling shows that more than 90 percent of people in southern Virginia support the company. Why? For the idea of the jobs! Guess what, the red states lost a lot of work due to Big Tech. There's even a NetLingo word for it: You've been <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/amazonned.php" target="_blank">Amazonned</a>.<br />
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Southern Virginians get why Amazon didn’t locate there: They don’t have 25,000 highly skilled people ready to go to work immediately, but they do have 75,000 college students they'd rather not watch leave. So, Amazon if the coastal elite think you and the other Big Tech companies are wrecking their cities, set up shop in places that will benefit America! I agree with their sentiment, it's tiring to watch politicians in New York City and Seattle gripe about tech companies overrunning their cities, it's like watching two rich people argue.<br />
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The contract workers also don’t get benefits at Google, they can’t list on LinkedIn that they work for Google, and they are still subject to forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims, a policy that changed for full-time workers after a global walkout by Google employees (see below!). According to one employee, Google’s contract worker policy basically amounts to this: We are legally in the clear to treat people like garbage. Coming from one of the most successful companies in history, it only makes Google look like garbage.<br />
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As for their employees, Google has also been quietly urging the U.S. government to overturn an Obama-era protection that lets employees use their work email to organize online, according to Bloomberg.com. Google made an argument to the National Labor Relations Board last November, three weeks after 20,000 of its employees walked out to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment cases. The filing was revealed last week through a Freedom of Information Act request. Busted.<br />
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Because Google’s workers are spread around the globe and don’t have most co-workers’ personal emails, its employee email system played a pivotal role in the organizing for that protest. Google’s push to remove the protection was considered surprising because the company publicly expressed support for the goals of the protest. Busted again. This is yet another instance of Big Tech saying one thing and doing something else, when what they need to do is be more transparent... but not to the degree as Netflix (see previous blog)!<br />
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Internet Specialist, </span></i><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Social Psychologist, </span></i>Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://netlingo.com/">NetLingo.com</a></span></span></i></div>
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You don't care you say, you want the salary, the prestige, the experience. Well apparently ruthless and demoralizing and working in constant fear is the Netflix way. What gives? According to The Wall Street Journal at Netflix, they count "radical candor and <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/transparency.php" target="_blank">transparency</a>" among their highest corporate values. OK... So that means when almost every employee can access sensitive information such as viewer numbers for Netflix’s shows, and when 500+ executives can see the salaries of every staffer, they want to demand the same transparency to evaluating performance? The problem with that is you don't treat humans the way you treat data.<br />
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Netflix actually encourages team dinners where everyone goes around and gives feedback and criticism about others at the table, and managers are encouraged to apply a "keeper test" to their staff... asking themselves whether they would fight to keep a given employee and firing those for whom the answer is no. In fact, Netflix infamous CEO Reed Hastings uses the keeper test himself, and last year fired one of the company’s first employees, a close friend for decades. One former Netflixer says she saw a fired colleague crying as she packed her boxes while other employees looked away, fearing that helping her would put a target on their back.<br />
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It's kill or be killed according to Gizmodo.com. This is the kind of the place where the Chief Human Resources Officer created a 120-slide PowerPoint deck back in 2004 explaining Netflix’s culture of “freedom and responsibility.” She pushed them to keep only highly effective people and devised the keeper test. You can guess how the story ends: Hastings used the keeper test on her in 2011 and fired her. Don't worry, there's a NetLingo word for what she'll do next: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/ladder-bypass.php" target="_blank">ladder bypass</a>.<br />
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For those of us who have endured this kind of corporate hell, it's disheartening to see that Big Tech and other corporations still don't care about bullying people to get rid of dead weight. What's even more challenging is that many employees join companies like this with their eyes open and they don't care either! Otherwise Netflix wouldn't have an 87 percent approval rating on Glassdoor. Netflix also took the No. 1 spot on a survey in which <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/knowledge-worker.php" target="_blank">knowledge workers</a> were asked which company they most wanted to join. <br />
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C'mon gang, we'll never get rid of this corporate culture of fear until people stop accepting it. The answer lies with you, with us... not with Reed Hastings and his cronies who are clearly acting out of fear themselves. Don't "want to work" there just because you spend so much of your valuable free time consuming their product. Better yet, boycott the product... they may not care in their hearts but they will when they feel it in their wallets. Our workplace environment should at least maintain common decency empower professionals to be their best possible versions.<br />
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Internet Specialist, </span></i><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Social Psychologist, </span></i>Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://netlingo.com/">NetLingo.com</a></span></span></i></div>
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Open offices have become popular at startups and established companies alike, and Facebook even put all 2,800 employees in one 10-acre building! Ugh. The article goes on to point out that these layouts actually lower the percentage of in-person interactions by 70 percent, while emailing and other electronic messaging rises by 50 percent. <br />
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Open offices have also been shown to create stress, especially for women who fell like they are on display all of the time. Check that. While sixty-five percent of creative people have said we need quiet or absolute silence to do our best work. Sure enough, open offices changed everything and there's a NetLingo word for it: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/disruptive-technology.php" target="_blank">disruptive technology</a>.<br />
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Even CBS News said yep, the latest research shows that most open office plans fail, and that we didn’t need science to prove how much open offices suck the life out of our workday. I can't believe that seventy percent of Americans now work in open offices! That's a lot of people when, they need to have a real conversation or pitch an important client, they have to find a storage closet.<br />
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According to the Financial Times, at the trending WeWork <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/co-working.php" target="_blank">co-working</a> offices, the shared desks seem fairly empty, while the private meeting rooms were full. The ultimate sign that the open office is due for some serious rethinking? Companies are now spending $3,500 for portable soundproof pods to let their employees get away from their colleagues and actually do their work. Gang, if you need to get out from under the fluorescent light, check out job sites like <a href="http://remote.com/">Remote.com</a>.<br />
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Dear corporations and businesses alike, the time has come. If you have a productive employee who is capable of performing his or her job offsite, and is equipped with all the office technology and collaboration software as needed, and expresses an interest and desire to do so, then c'mon Big Tech, allow your employees the opportunity to work from home, work remotely, work virtually, telecommute... whatever you want to call it. If not, at least bring back the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cube-farm.php" target="_blank">cube farms</a>.<br />
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Internet Specialist, </span></i><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Social Psychologist, </span></i>Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://netlingo.com/">NetLingo.com</a></span></span></i></div>
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Karl Marx would not be surprised by the gig economy, said Leonid Bershidsky in Bloomberg.com. Marx’s proletariat was made up of laborers who were “increasingly impoverished by the rise of machines.” Well guess what? That describes the workers on “digital labor platforms” such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk perfectly.<br /><br />The “click-worker” jobs on these platforms can include “filling out questionnaires for academic researchers, transcribing audio, even moderating content for social networks.” These jobs are demanding and require education, yet the people who do them earn an average of only $4.43 an hour, according to a survey of 3,500 workers from 75 countries. That number falls to $3.31 an hour when you factor in unpaid time spent looking for orders, researching clients, and taking qualification tests.<br /><br />It’s not just workers in poor countries who are paid these wages. Two-thirds of U.S. “Turkers” made less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. These are “hellish” jobs without even “basic worker protections.” Should a modern society tolerate jobs that come with no worker rights and no possibility of dignified survival? “And even if such jobs are allowed, should they be offered by huge tech companies that provide outsize returns to shareholders?” Shouldn’t gig workers get to live in a world that feels like 2018, not Marx’s 1848?<br /><br />
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-34155518771137074962019-01-21T10:10:00.002-08:002019-02-21T04:53:10.796-08:00Congress Doesn't Get Big Tech and Senators Don’t Use E-mail. This Bothers Me.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yoiAjYuFxCOM09-MZraf86S41jEcoV1tDhndu2Q3Ozxh81tfJJwyevIO2duQcuDByb9v3EZcPIvoq_ahQShyphenhyphen2vBXdCf_CcnBmzaIZs8ZTFwmCEFc3Zh-icy6_BDoJfG2gKc51Q/s1600/congress-does-not-get-tech.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5yoiAjYuFxCOM09-MZraf86S41jEcoV1tDhndu2Q3Ozxh81tfJJwyevIO2duQcuDByb9v3EZcPIvoq_ahQShyphenhyphen2vBXdCf_CcnBmzaIZs8ZTFwmCEFc3Zh-icy6_BDoJfG2gKc51Q/s1600/congress-does-not-get-tech.jpg" /></a>From Senator Chuck Schumer to Senator Lindsey Graham, many of our elected officials continue to brag about not using email. That's concerning. Even more startling is the fact that Congress doesn't get Big Tech. The Facebook hearing last year made it clear that very few U.S. Senators understand Facebook's business. Most of the questions came from tech-challenged Senators who seemed clueless about how Facebook makes its money and even how the Internet works.<br />
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"If a version of Facebook will always be free, how do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?" Senator Orrin Hatch, the 84-year-old Republican from Utah (who also famously doesn't use email), asked early on in the five-hour hearing. Mark Zuckerberg paused a moment before saying, "Senator, we run ads." He, and his staff sitting behind him, then grinned directly at him. There's a NetLingo word for that Senator Hatch: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/noob.php" target="_blank">noob</a>.<br />
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Watch this and tell me Congress, do you really want to be laughed at by Big Tech?<br />
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Meanwhile Trump is begging Big Tech for free labor to avoid federal hirings, and because of the government shutdown, 45% of employees in the Department of Homeland Security’s newly created Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have been furloughed, in addition to 85% of workers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.<br />
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This all bothers me so I try to reach out and voice my concern but apparently you need to call, and not email, your legislators. I'm told even if you don’t speak directly to the lawmaker, staff members will often pass the message along in one form or another. Really? With a can and a line of string?<br />
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Congress, you cannot afford to be stuck in 1995. As Catherine Rampell from the Washington Post reminds us, the digital revolution is now decades old, affecting virtually every industry and public policy. Senators help make federal laws regulating technology, privacy, cybersecurity, and the digital economy, and for you, ignoring how everyone else in the nation communicates is a form of political malpractice. If you know little or nothing about technology in a technological age, you shouldn't be in the Senate, but if you are, then please hire a consultant like me.<br />
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How dominant are Google, Facebook, and Amazon you ask? According to a briefing in my favorite magazine The Week, they are as dominant as Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, and American Tobacco were at the end of the 19th century.<br />
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<li>Google dominates search, video, and online ads and has an 885 market share in search advertising in the U.S. </li>
<li>Facebook and its major subsidiaries—Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—account for 77% of mobile social media traffic. </li>
<li>Almost $1 of every $2 in online retail sales goes through Amazon.</li>
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Flush with revenues of tens of billions of dollars, each company has heavily expanded into other industries:<br />
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<li>Google dominates video (through YouTube), mapping, and personal email;</li>
<li>Facebook is building consumer drones and virtual reality sets; </li>
<li>Amazon recently bought the upscale grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion.</li>
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Digital enthusiasts once predicted that the internet would democratize business and industry; instead, it’s enabled a handful of firms to have such dominant market shares that it’s almost impossible to compete with them. T.J. Stiles, a biographer of the 19th-century business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, says we are living in a second Gilded Age. “Our lives,” he says, “are channeled once again through fewer and fewer companies controlled by a few men.”<br />
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So, what’s wrong with monopolies you may ask? When companies control a market, they tend to use their power to eliminate competition—often to the detriment of consumers. They can force suppliers to lower their prices, cutting their profits, and can bankrupt their rivals by undercutting them—or simply buy them out. Massive companies can also use economies of scale to eliminate jobs—particularly in the digital era, when much work can be automated. All this can result in reduced consumer choice, depressed wages, and a concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer people in fewer locations.<br />
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And is that actually occurring? Yes...<br />
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<li>Amazon accounts for 52% of all U.S. book sales, 43 percent of all online commerce, and 45 percent of the fast-growing cloud-computing market. The Seattle-based company has put most brick-and-mortar bookstores out of business, and last year had online sales six times higher than those of Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Home Depot, Macy’s, Kohl’s, and Costco combined! The self-proclaimed “Everything Store” has absorbed many of its competitors, buying the largest online shoe retailer (Zappos), the most popular live-streaming video platform (Twitch), and the market leader in baby products (Diapers.com). When the latter initially refused to sell, Amazon simply slashed its prices for its own baby products until Diapers.com capitulated.</li>
<li>Facebook boasts 2 billion active users—more than a quarter of the human race. When CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw a social media threat from Instagram and WhatsApp, he spent $20 billion to buy them. A third social media competitor, Snapchat, rejected an offer of $3 billion, so Facebook launched a feature on Instagram essentially replicating Snapchat’s self-deleting videos and photos. Within a year, Instagram Stories has already attracted more daily users than its rival. </li>
<li>Google’s parent company, Alphabet, acquires an average of one company a week. More than 1 billion people worldwide use Gmail. For Google, Amazon, and Facebook’s stockholders and executives, this staggering level of success has created enormous wealth, and the companies’ customers benefit from the unprecedented convenience their various services provide.</li>
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The domination of these tech giants also has produced plenty of losers, such as:<br />
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<li>The newspaper industry is one example. Facebook and Google control more than 70% of the $73 billion digital advertising market in the U.S. Many of those dollars used to go to media companies: Between 2006 and 2016, U.S. newspaper advertising revenue plummeted from $50 billion to $18 billion, and the number of jobs in the industry has been cut by more than half, from 411,000 in 2001 to 174,000 in 2016. Journalism websites, too, are struggling to survive, because Facebook and Google eat up most of the online ad dollars. </li>
<li>Department stores and malls are another example. Hundreds of major retail stores have shut their doors because of the shift to online shopping, and dozens of malls have gone dark or are half empty. That, in turn, has damaged the vitality of downtowns and surrounding communities. “The communities wither away, and they never come back,” said Howard Davidowitz, an investment banker and consultant to the retail industry.</li>
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Is there any pushback? What do you think... in the U.S., not much. The U.S. government generally has used a light hand in regulating tech companies, so as not to stifle innovation and growth in what is now our fastest-growing industry.<br />
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Facebook, Google, and Amazon argue that they’re not true monopolies, because their much smaller competitors are only a click away—something that wasn’t the case with, say, AT&T before it was broken up. And the Big Tech beasts spend vast sums keeping lawmakers on their side: Facebook alone poured $3.2 million into federal lobbying in one quarter alone. But this is neither true nor fair to the American public.<br />
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Ultimately, consumers will have to rebel en masse against these companies before U.S. lawmakers or regulators will take any action—and there’s no sign that will happen, so one of my New Year's resolutions will be to figure out a way to contact elected officials and educate you as to how the Internet actually works and why Big Tech needs regulation. <br />
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identify the Top Internet Jargon of the Year, the Top Internet Acronym of the
Year, the worthy terms that made the Top 10 List, and 5 online trends to look
for in the coming year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Internet
term of 2018 is brain hacking, and the Top Internet Acronym of the Year is NSFW
– Not Safe For Work; the rest of the list includes: clap back, co-working,
FIRE, woke, lawnmower parent, QAnon, #TFA and blockchain. Check it out! HOW
MANY HAVE YOU HEARD OF?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Everyone's
talking tech this year, from POTUS to Congress and Millennials to Big Tech.
Here are the Top 10 Internet Terms for 2018. Explanations of the linked terms
are on NetLingo.com:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/brain-hacking.php">brain hacking</a> - 2018
Jargon of the Year, <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/big-tech.php">big
tech</a> is hooking us by making smartphones a habit, even <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/silicon-valley.php">Silicon Valley</a> is
ditching their devices due to <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/internet-addiction.php">Internet addiction</a>,
<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/digital-detox.php">digital detox</a> and
<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/child-tech-addiction.php">child tech
addiction</a>. ADULTS: Please take this <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/internet-addiction.php">8-question quiz</a>, and for your KIDS: please ask them this <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/child-tech-addiction.php">12-question quiz</a>. The term "brain hacking" comes from hijacking peoples' minds to form a habit and
it specifically refers to the way Silicon Valley is engineering <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/smartphone.php" target="_parent">smartphones</a>, <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/app.php" target="_parent">apps</a> and <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/social-media.php" target="_parent">social media</a> to get us hooked, and to
get you and your family to feel the need to check in constantly. You know when
you're on a <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/mobile.php" target="_parent">mobile</a> social media site and you pull
down on the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/news-feed.php" target="_parent">news feed</a> to get it to refresh, and
you see that little circle scrolling clockwise... that's called the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/pull-down-refresh.php" target="_parent">pull-down refresh</a> and the guy who
invented it, is sorry he did because people are now addicted. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/brain-hacking.php">Read the full story here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/nsfw.php">NSFW</a> - 2018 Acronym of the
Year "Not Safe For Work" from post-#MeToo movements to celebrities
tweeting “NSFW headlines” it inspired the new book “<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/shop/nsfw-little-black-book-of-acronyms.php">NSFW:
The Little Black Book of Acronyms</a>”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/clap-back.php">clap back</a> - If Oxford’s word
is toxic, then the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/twitterverse.php">twitterverse</a>
is clapping back… it’s a noun, it’s a verb, it’s never been used more than NOW
as <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/influencer.php">influencers</a> continue
to perfect the art of the clapback, thx Ja Rule</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/co-working.php">co-working</a> – sharing
workplaces, it’s a <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/generation-y.php">millennial</a>
trend with <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/co-living.php">co-living</a>
and <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/co-sharing.php">co-sharing</a>;
working in the industry and living in urban areas is impacting people’s lives
and creating new business opportunities</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/fire.php">FIRE</a> – it means
"Financial Independence, Retire Early" bravo to millennial crusaders
who are <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/geeking-out.php">geeking out</a>
calculating compound interest and blowing up the whole concept of career and
retirement</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">6. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/woke.php">woke</a> – young and old are
becoming aware, like a man who’s a feminist, or a person's awareness of current
affairs, it implies knowledge and empathy as in "You’re woke, so now
things are, you know, real."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">7. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/lawnmower-parent.php">lawnmower parent</a>
– first <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/tiger-parent.php">tiger</a>,
then <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/elephant-parent.php">elephant</a>, <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/helicopter-parent.php">helicopter</a>, <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/dolphin-parent.php">dolphin</a>, <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/attachment-parent.php">attachment</a>, <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/free-range-parent.php">free-range</a>,
lawnmowers "mow down" a path for their <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/snowflake.php">snowflakes</a> removing all
obstacles that may cause a struggle </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">8. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/qanon.php">QAnon</a> – what started as a <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cryptic.php">cryptic</a> <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/post.php">post</a> grew into a sprawling
alternative theory about all things <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/fake.php">fake</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">9. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/tfa.php">#TFA</a> – Omarosa said “they'd
just <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/hashtag.php">hashtag</a> it ‘TFA’
and move on when Trump did something insane,” it refers to the Twenty Fifth
Amendment, as in the removal of the <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/potus.php">POTUS</a> in the event of
impairment… </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">10. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/blockchain.php">blockchain</a> – the muscle
behind <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/bitcoin.php">bitcoin</a> (which
Scrabble just added) it makes bitcoin transactions secure, reliable, and
anonymous, it fueled a <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cryptocurrency.php">cryptocurrency</a>
craze and helps with ocean plastic too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Read more
about the bold terms on NetLingo.com and the Top 5 Online Trends to Watch in
2019:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/deepfake.php">deepfake</a> / <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/facial-recognition.php">facial recognition</a>
/ <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/faceprint.php">faceprint</a> – OMG
deepfake wait until you see the photo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/social-credit.php">social credit</a> / <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/social-scoring.php">social scoring</a> / <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/reputation-score.php">reputation score</a>
– scary stuff from China, wait it’s from big tech too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/ai.php">AI </a>/ <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/artificial-intelligence.php">artificial
intelligence</a> / <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/machine-learning.php">machine
learning</a> / <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/robotics.php">robotics</a>
– unbelievable developments </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/yimby.php">YIMBY</a> & <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/jomo.php">JOMO</a> - Yes In My Back Yard
& Joy Of Missing Out – new attitude (not <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/nimby.php">NIMBY</a> & <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/fomo.php">FOMO</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/cbd.php">CBD</a> – yes, as in the
oil, it’s not an actual <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/acronym.php">acronym</a>
because it stands for Cannabidiol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Top 10
Internet Terms of the Year, compiled by <a href="http://erinjansen.com/">Erin
Jansen</a>, founder of <a href="http://netlingo.com/">NetLingo.com</a></span><br />
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</style> Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08219754988419903262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28606578.post-49741007363173618892018-11-16T09:11:00.005-08:002018-11-16T09:17:56.347-08:00DatingNews.com: Get "NSFW" to Decode Flirtatious Slang for Sexty Singles<br />
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<b>The Scoop:</b> If your crush texts you slang terms you
don’t understand, your romance can quickly become lost in translation.
Fortunately, <a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef807278439d1d8569655d1bba2d70dd933d6bc5a90641ed625a" target="_blank">NetLingo</a> Founder Erin Jansen has spent over 20 years
creating resources to help people keep up with common slang and netiquette, so
they never miss a beat in online convos. In the last year, she has written two
books that detail the texting and romantic slang today’s daters need to know to
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It’s tempting to overanalyze every word, punctuation mark,
and emoji in a text message from a crush. What did he mean by “just hangin”?
Was he implying that he was free to hang out with me? Or what did she mean by
that smiley face at the end of her reply? Is that a signal that she wants to be
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Each exclamation point and word choice can offer a clue into
that person’s mindset, so it all goes under the microscope as someone tries to
figure out if that person is interested in a relationship — or if it’s time to
get someone else’s digits.</div>
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NetLingo Founder Erin Jansen is an authority on online
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Of course, sometimes riddling out what your crush writes
means keeping pace with the ever-changing internet and texting slang. <a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef807278439d1d8569655d1bba2d70dd933d9af4e3956e7ae4a4" target="_blank">NetLingo</a> can help with that. Erin Jansen founded NetLingo
in 1995 because she saw the internet changing how people communicated and
wanted to create a database to reflect new slang, acronyms, and other jargon.</div>
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million pageviews a year. Erin has embraced the nickname “NetLingo Girl”
and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, and “The Martha
Stewart Show” to discuss how technology impacts how we communicate and relate
to one another.</div>
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Erin’s latest book, “<a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef807278439d1d8569655d1bba2d70dd933d2ee4fd3ab874883a37f645d6df8abf1ae306639b1649d7416c52023dc16a3400e593dd2cdc62b16966e4db265155668b" target="_blank">NSFW: The Little Black Book of Acronyms</a>,” focuses on
defining the flirty terms that are most relevant to modern singles. Its list of
naughty abbreviations is a helpful guide for anyone attempting to woo a date
online.</div>
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“This ever-evolving lexicon just keeps growing, and someone
has to decipher and deliver it,” Erin said. “That’s where I come in: the
NetLingo Girl. We may not talk this way, but we definitely type this way, and
it’s a strange communication that needs decoding.”</div>
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<b>Exposing Dirty Talk & Romantic Lingo on the Naughty
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We’ll never know who first decided to type “qt” instead of
“cutie” or “ilu” instead of “I love you,” but such terms caught on because they
save texters time and make the conversation feel more intimate — as if you
share a language all your own.</div>
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“We obviously can’t type as fast as we talk, so that’s how
this abbreviated language evolved,” Erin explained. “Plus, people have an
easier time being sexy by text — it’s a new way of flirting. Online daters get
to learn a new way of creatively expressing sweet nothings to their love
interests.”</div>
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The NetLingo database has grown tremendously thanks to user
submissions. Everyday individuals can submit a slang word or abbreviation to
the site, and Erin will review it, approve it, and see it go live on the site.
This moderation process has allowed her to keep pace with netspeak, 1337 speak,
and online jargon.</div>
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“NSFW” would make a nice gift for naughty daters looking for
their bae.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjKIK7xxpg_3p9nnec1gIfLuYsmgjAdFtGS5ydSs1zOUIiVN0F48CT8P0UL4JZZjsN_veNMnn0BY1dJNoPTfFG9IpSv3MjHlz68rp4sAmljQLGRQRjUlLobuxp8m2NhzuaPvoVw/s1600/naughty-or-nice-netlingo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjKIK7xxpg_3p9nnec1gIfLuYsmgjAdFtGS5ydSs1zOUIiVN0F48CT8P0UL4JZZjsN_veNMnn0BY1dJNoPTfFG9IpSv3MjHlz68rp4sAmljQLGRQRjUlLobuxp8m2NhzuaPvoVw/s1600/naughty-or-nice-netlingo.jpg" /></a>In 2018, Erin released two informative books. “<a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef80fd7c534186fce1acc97fb4d11a40b7b20b8b74daba0c6baa5de8cfc8bb1385aa9977e53a7b62d1764071d637ca42067a8951d813eac3643c65c97824a2638ee2737a2420c0183278" target="_blank">Texting Terms</a>” is a nice list of every acronym and
abbreviation posted on NetLingo. “NSFW” is a naughty list of all the sexy
terms she’s collected in the last 20+ years. “NSFW” is definitely “not suitable
for work.” It includes sexual endearments, crude humor, profanity, and
references to drugs and alcohol. The book doesn’t hold anything back and gives
singles the raw, unfiltered truth. That way, next time someone asks you to tdtm
(talk dirty to me), you’ll know what to do.</div>
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“When I published ‘Texting Terms,’ the naughty-nyms got lost
amidst all of the other acronyms,” Erin explained, “so I played with the idea
of creating a little black book version. When I tested that idea, people loved
it.”</div>
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Now NetLingo users can choose to get <a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef807278439d1d8569655d1bba2d70dd933def11f8cc1116978369e26a84d9d167c466e4db265155668b" target="_blank">a naughty or nice list of online slang</a>. If you’re looking
for an adults-only guidebook on sexy slang, you can pick up “NSFW” and learn
all the sexty messages and brash acronyms you’ll ever need to know.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnT_EPXwppNsZjWSu-7-uwQeq1T7U6-EsgZuCwXomEBMcr8Ld27sV8bwLcFnfI6FKlpYRZzH8UaRdsQ2uq5hDLzf4k_5nn-d8pR82uA8Dn6VpPd0WeNPMDqayGw8MXfRO7pIJbA/s1600/bighug.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="608" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnT_EPXwppNsZjWSu-7-uwQeq1T7U6-EsgZuCwXomEBMcr8Ld27sV8bwLcFnfI6FKlpYRZzH8UaRdsQ2uq5hDLzf4k_5nn-d8pR82uA8Dn6VpPd0WeNPMDqayGw8MXfRO7pIJbA/s200/bighug.png" width="194" /></a>“These books can serve as a fun inspiration to keep the
conversation going,” Erin said. “It’s important to understand what
potential dates are texting you, so if you see an acronym you don’t understand,
you can quickly look it up and determine if you should swipe right or left.”</div>
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“NSFW” is a ‘sexty’ little black book that highlights the
naughty jargon evolving from our online ‘anonymous’ style of communication. Due
to its mature content, “NSFW” could make the perfect gag gift for the holidays,
but it’s also just a great wingman for online daters seeking ways to get the
conversation rolling in a sexy direction.</div>
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“‘NSFW’ is meant to be fun,” Erin said. “I decided to give
the people what they want. Once I dug deep into my analytics, I found not only
is America searching for sex, but y’all talk dirty!”</div>
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<b>“Texting Terms” Further Delves Into the Shorthand of the
Day</b></div>
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“Texting Terms: NetLingo’s Guide to Every Online Acronym
& Abbreviation You’ll Ever Need to Know” has taken NetLingo’s impressive
list of texting and chat acronyms and put it into print. The book lists the
shorthand and leetspeak used by people all over the world. It has over 3,000
entries, and some will leave you breathless with laughter.</div>
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You can say a lot with a little by reading up on common
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Some of the terms are fairly widespread — bae, MAGA, and imo
— while others may not have come across your radar before. For instance, people
who go to school or work from home <a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef807278439d1d8569655d1bba2d70dd933d2eea9bd57ebafd7908ada64da359eb2e" target="_blank">may not have heard of a HIPPO</a>, which stands for “highest
paid person in the office.” It’s fun to read through this list and guess what
complex abbreviations like WoMoBiJo (working mother with a big job) and 142n8ly
(unforunately) mean.</div>
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“This handy guide is a great gift for adults who love to
spend time online,” Erin said. “If new lingo leaves you 404, you can look up
and decode any message in minutes.”</div>
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Erin uses simple language to define online acronyms used by
millions of people every day. Readers can flip through this book to find a
particular term or just to get a sense of the variety of abbreviations being
thrown around ESEMED (every second, every minute, every day). Singles can
consult this book while texting potential dates so they always look like they’re
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ways. You’ll find sections on assicons and sexty smiles on “NSFW,” while
“Texting Terms” deals with more mainstream slang. The raunchy, playful content
in “NSFW” appeals to daters interested in sexting properly, while “Texting
Terms” appeals to parents who want to understand what their kids are saying. Or
singles wondering what a date is saying.</div>
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“NSFW” makes for a great gag gift or conversation starter at
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“These slim, coffee-table books are great for anyone who
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Erin has created fun and comprehensive resources that
cover <a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef807278439d1d8569655d1bba2d70dd933d5d1f2f8d6485197145c9e6374e72894eb4e91c232d9dab60" target="_blank">the world of online jargon</a> with clear definitions.
These books give people insight into all sorts of online conversations.
“Texting Terms” even has a section on international text terms, so you can
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Police stations, district attorneys, and cybercrime units
have trusted “Texting Terms” to help them decode cryptic messages on the web.
Meanwhile, brogrammers, online daters, cougars, and other singles have used
“NSFW” to help them up their flirting games on the web. Whether your interest
is personal or professionals, Erin’s books can demystify textspeak for you.</div>
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Additionally, NetLingo offers a wealth of information on
technology, language, and modern culture. Erin writes <a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=9d9879c69fc1cd729aacedcb59d5483b10fb85048f8f7654f8d7482580bac9eb" target="_blank">weekly editorials on her blog</a> to give her two cents
about headlines in the tech industry and beyond. You can also <a href="https://www.datingnews.com/external/?site=45fe109f138bef805eca339a6030b4159a03aad6e6728a0822084b2a372e4182b82b5d4c0b37adb4" target="_blank">follow NetLingo on Facebook</a> to get frequent updates on
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Since 1995, NetLingo’s online dictionary has helped people
understand online jargon and common abbreviations. Many newbies have bookmarked
the site to get the 411 on demand, and its popularity inspired Erin to create
more authoritative and down-to-earth resources that lower the language barrier
between folks online.</div>
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Terms” to find out what a particular slang term or online expression means.
These books have highlighted NetLingo’s most relevant and noteworthy acronyms
to give readers a laugh as well as some good information. Singles can use these
books to help them get to the bottom of what an online crush is saying.</div>
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seeing their slang contributions in print and that it will spark many
conversations about the funniest, strangest, and most useful slang terms and
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“These books are a form of edutainment. No one else is tracking the online
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Hayley is the Editor-in-Chief of DatingNews, and she handles editorial
schedules, interviews, social media, and partnerships, among other things.
She's been in the dating industry for more than six years, and her work has
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">NetLingo releases two New Internet Books specially for the Holiday Season: "Texting Terms" & "NSFW: The Little Black Book of Acronyms"</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">West Palm Beach,
FL. November 15, 2018 - NetLingo LLC, creators of NetLingo.com, released two
new books "NSFW: The Little Black Book of Acronyms” (ISBN 097063966X
$14.95) and “Texting Terms: NetLingo's Guide to Every Online Acronym &
Abbreviation You'll Ever Need to Know” (ISBN 0970639686 $19.95) on Amazon.com,
just in time for the holidays and Black Friday.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">You might be
thinking WTF kind of title is NSFW and why do I need a book on texting terms?
These two book releases highlight online jargon, the crazy array of letters,
numbers and keyboard symbols that everyone’s using to comprise our digital
conversations today. And what America is talking about is revealing…<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">“NSFW” is a
shocking, innovative and ‘sexty’ little book containing only the naughty jargon
that’s evolved from our highly sexualized culture and online ‘anonymous’ style
of communication. Things to say to your ‘brogrammer’ or bae :) "Not Safe
For Work" is for adults 18+ only, with acronyms too provocative to list
here. Mature themes also include assicons, boobiecons, sexty smileys, leet
profanity and a micro dose of NASCII art. It’s the ‘little black book’ after
all. Take a peek: <u><a href="https://www.netlingo.com/naughty-or-nice.php">netlingo.com/naughty-or-nice.php</a></u></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Texting Terms”
is NetLingo’s largest list of ALL the texting and internet acronyms. The
‘white’ version. Great for millennials and the White Elephant gift you need for
the office holiday party. So, if this new lingo leaves you 404, GL trying to
break the code, don’t worry, with these two books you can look up and decode
any message in minutes. Both make great coffee table books, ‘toilet humor’
books, gag gifts and fun conversation starters.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">NetLingo is the
authoritative resource for internet acronyms and online culture, tracking
thousands of terms about cyber business, technology, programming and of course,
online jargon - the universal ‘net lingo’ used by millions of people on social
media, smartphones and the web. “With the internet, new and ever-evolving
language continues to emerge,” says Erin Jansen, founder, editor and scribe
since 1995, and adds “it’s only getting bigger.” Erin receives new terms daily
from her thousands of users, verifies their actual usage, then edits and adds
them to the website each month.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The ‘NetLingo
Girl’ is considered a web pioneer and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News,
BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, and the Martha Stewart Show. She is an Internet Specialist,
Social Psychologist, and writer and speaker on culturally relevant issues about
technology and how it impacts our lives. At <u><a href="http://erinjansen.com/">erinjansen.com</a></u>, her mission is
to educate and entertain people worldwide about online culture and
communication.</span></div>
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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.</span></div>
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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 <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/milf.php" target="_blank">MILF</a>.
We’ve often thought we should continue my original NetLingo mission about explaining technology from a woman’s point of view on a <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/vlog.php" target="_blank">vlog</a>. 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.</span></div>
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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: <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/404.php" target="_blank">404</a>.</span></div>
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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! </span></div>
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worked in the industry <i>all of my professional life</i>, 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.</span></div>
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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! <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/naughty-or-nice.php" target="_blank">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!</a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Dudes,
peeps, my NetLingo friends, I am loving my new "NSFW" book so don’t
be surprised when you see my <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/digital-doppelganger.php" target="_blank">digital doppelganger</a> showing up in my social media feeds. I need a
break from all this "Big Tech Politik" </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Mr. <a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/potus.php" target="_blank">POTUS</a> </span>and chuckle on my
toilet for a change. Better yet I’ll be by the pool sexting my
<a href="https://www.netlingo.com/word/bae.php" target="_blank">bae</a> 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.</span></div>
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://erinjansen.com/" target="_blank">Erin Jansen</a></span>, Internet Specialist, Social
Psychologist, Founder of <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://netlingo.com/">NetLingo.com</a></span></span></i></div>
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