{"id":15225,"date":"2011-02-09T02:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15225\/lexicon-friendburst-vocabulary\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T02:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T07:05:54","slug":"lexicon-friendburst-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/15225\/lexicon-friendburst-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lexicon of FriendBurst Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there, FriendBurst!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

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There has been some excellent reflection in the blogs lately about where this little community has been and where it\u2019s going.\u00a0 I\u2019ve enjoyed reading this, and although I generally think that blogging about blogging itself<\/strong><\/span> 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.<\/p>\n

This is one of those blogs! <\/strong>What a strange and fascinating 100 days it\u2019s been here at FriendBurst!<\/span><\/p>\n

What I want to do is help with the language we use to talk about the particular phenomenon unique to this place.\u00a0 The Lingo.\u00a0 A FriendBurst lexicon.\u00a0 There are some unique behaviors I\u2019ve noticed at this site that I\u2019ve seen nowhere before, as well as standard internet behaviors that are in no way unique.\u00a0 Now, I should say that just because I\u2019m giving a funny name to something I\u2019ve noticed doesn\u2019t mean I think that what I\u2019m naming is bad or wrong.\u00a0 Far from it; I\u2019ve done some of these things myself.\u00a0 For example, right now, by making this disclaimer, I am guilty of the very first term on my list!<\/span><\/p>\n

E-Quivocate: <\/strong>[ee-kwiv-uh-keyt] (verb) To soften an online critique by ambiguously and subtly making fun of it while stating that you\u2019re not judging it and sometimes do it yourself.\u00a0 See also: \u201cJust sayin\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevinvoke<\/strong><\/span>: [Kev-in-vohk] (verb) A technique to strengthen one\u2019s point on FriendBurst by invoking the name of Kevin. Usually accompanied by some reference to Kevin\u2019s motivations in making the site (e.g., \u201c\u2026that\u2019s not what Kevin created FriendBurst for!) or how many hours he spends on the site (\u2026he didn\u2019t work this hard to have you do stuff like that!).\u00a0 See also:\u00a0 \u201cKarenate\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Comcrastinate<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 [kom-kras-tuh-neyt] (verb)\u00a0 To purposefully delay answering your own blog comments in order to have something for later to keep one\u2019s blog fresh in the Blog Updates Stream. See also: \u201cE-laying\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fbumping<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 [ff-buhmp-ing] (verb)\u00a0 Finally responding to the comment noticed previously during comcrastination, bringing your blog to the attention of whoever happens to be online at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fbreaming <\/span><\/strong>[ff-breem-ing]\u00a0 (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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spamimal Activist<\/span><\/strong>: [spam-uh-muhl ak-tuh-vist]\u00a0 (noun)\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pukelele<\/span><\/strong>: [pyook-uh-lay-lay] (noun) that annoying, 4-stringed instrument played amateurishly by Joko in his videos.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Smallitics<\/strong><\/span>: (smahl-ih-tiks) (noun) barely coherent blogs about public policy that are so partisan and absent of reason as to defy description.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I know there are a lot more of these that we could come up with together.\u00a0 If you can’t think of a word, describe the behavior or phenomenon and we’ll come up with something together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello there, FriendBurst! There has been some excellent reflection in the blogs lately about where this little community has been and where it\u2019s going.\u00a0 I\u2019ve 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,81,160,1697],"class_list":["post-15225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","tag-friendburst-2","tag-joko","tag-kevin","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}