A Lexicon of FriendBurst Vocabulary
Hello there, FriendBurst!
There has been some excellent reflection in the blogs lately about where this little community has been and where it’s going. I’ve enjoyed reading this, and although I generally think that blogging about blogging itself borders on social network masturbation, fine territory for those reluctant to self-disclose or without any particular topic to discuss, it is, nonetheless, something I do occasionally delve into myself.
This is one of those blogs! What a strange and fascinating 100 days it’s been here at FriendBurst!
What I want to do is help with the language we use to talk about the particular phenomenon unique to this place. The Lingo. A FriendBurst lexicon. There are some unique behaviors I’ve noticed at this site that I’ve seen nowhere before, as well as standard internet behaviors that are in no way unique. Now, I should say that just because I’m giving a funny name to something I’ve noticed doesn’t mean I think that what I’m naming is bad or wrong. Far from it; I’ve done some of these things myself. For example, right now, by making this disclaimer, I am guilty of the very first term on my list!
E-Quivocate: [ee-kwiv-uh-keyt] (verb) To soften an online critique by ambiguously and subtly making fun of it while stating that you’re not judging it and sometimes do it yourself. See also: “Just sayin”
Kevinvoke: [Kev-in-vohk] (verb) A technique to strengthen one’s point on FriendBurst by invoking the name of Kevin. Usually accompanied by some reference to Kevin’s motivations in making the site (e.g., “…that’s not what Kevin created FriendBurst for!) or how many hours he spends on the site (…he didn’t work this hard to have you do stuff like that!). See also: “Karenate”
Comcrastinate: [kom-kras-tuh-neyt] (verb) To purposefully delay answering your own blog comments in order to have something for later to keep one’s blog fresh in the Blog Updates Stream. See also: “E-laying”
Fbumping: [ff-buhmp-ing] (verb) Finally responding to the comment noticed previously during comcrastination, bringing your blog to the attention of whoever happens to be online at the moment.
Fbreaming [ff-breem-ing] (verb, noun) The optimistic assumption that FriendBurst will one day grow to be a huge site with thousands, if not millions of members. Any statement made under that assumption.
Spamimal Activist: [spam-uh-muhl ak-tuh-vist] (noun) A member who vigorously dominates the blog flow by posting multiple blogs, usually cut-and-paste from other sources, all in support of his or her own pet cause.
Pukelele: [pyook-uh-lay-lay] (noun) that annoying, 4-stringed instrument played amateurishly by Joko in his videos.
Smallitics: (smahl-ih-tiks) (noun) barely coherent blogs about public policy that are so partisan and absent of reason as to defy description.
I know there are a lot more of these that we could come up with together. If you can’t think of a word, describe the behavior or phenomenon and we’ll come up with something together.
Mystalgia: the weird cognitive dissonance experienced when someone brings up someone from Myspace of yore who gave you the chronic shits whilst there, but the mere envoking of the name makes you think..I kinda miss them.
Ooo! I thought of another one:
Categorall: [kat-i-guh-rahll] (noun) An obtuse method of improving blog visibility by clicking every category button.
Unowordology…(uno-word-ology) The process of transferring a single word from an argument on a previous blog to another blog as a method of renewing the argument in a secretive manner known only to the parties involved…A very effective tool…LOL
I will bookmark this.
Masterburstion: giving in to the temptation to “hearty thingy” your own blog.
MUUAHAHAHAA!!! Heeelarious! Keep em coming!
“Carnicrite” or “Hypovore” One who blogs about being a vegetarian while eating a hamburger…
“Declaring MySpace Bankruptcy”
The act of terminating your MySpace account, saluting the Newsgroup Corp one last time, before you finally stop hopping back and forth between the sites.
“BWI” Blogging while intoxicated
Trollgret – The self-loathing emotion one feels when they make a provoking or snarky reply to someone, only to see the winky smiley face at the end of their target’s comment right after they press the “submit comment” button.
Unburstable the action or actions made up in whole or in part by where a party,or parties refuse or resist all cognitive impartiality for the innate and quantitative rhetoric contained within the text in question for the sole purpose of confusing the other,or others in their stated goals,and/or purposes.
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A Burger Burster a cretin or other wise unknown entity who preys on the fragile and often misunderstood conjecture between all creatures who must eat to survive.
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Now you owe me .80 cents for 6 comments footballer boy.
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LOL!
This is cute! 😆
respectuhfunctus. Folks that start out their reply with… “with all due respect” … but in reality respect is the farthest thing from their minds.
example: “With all due respect, you’re a fuggin cows anal leakage”
mornin Joko!
Well, this is great fun. 😉
Spellographic-infusion…The process of correcting the spelling of a word in a comment as opposed to producing a statement related to the topic at hand…(the internet equivilence of flipping one the bird)
PLAGI-ISMS..Someone who passes other’s works as their own.Does not give credit to
it’s Author. Commonly known “To Plagiarize”
Spacealistic – I don’t know what could be. Just came into my mind listen a new song of a friend.
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Enskribulation, the act of answering every blog with a shooped photo.
This kind of blog is what I created Friendburst for!! Did I just Kevinvoke myself?
Yankoversion: the act of re-editing blogs to include conversions of temperature, length, terminology etc into those quaint old fashioned terms yankoreaders understand. Please note, this is a one way street, it never happens in reverse, thus a case of yankomyopia: the persisent belief that though this is the World Wide Web, the world actually only exists between Cananda and Mexico, or calling any non-US reader/writer/commentor on the world wide web, a “foreigner”.
BLOGICIDE: the practice of placing a .gif of Michael Jackson in your own comments knowing the blog will not be the focus of any comments.
Wahmbo – (pronounced like Rambo)- A blogger that frequently posts angry provoking blogs (many times saying that they don’t care what others think about them) only to cry like a baby and threaten to leave FriendBurst when other Bursters criticize their blogs.u
Attention Bore – Someone who repeatedly threatens to leave Friendburst in an attempt to gain attention or sympathy from the community, yet never actually leaves.
LOL And who cares about all these made up words when most people do not
know how to use the word to and too, and how to use the apostrophe..Its or It’s.
And the worst grammatical mistake: Them those…and Those ones…
Emoticondria: Flagrant abuse of emoticons.
“Hardonics” – posting mindless blogs while driving a cab. See also: Camel riders with machetes.