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jinushaun
11/18/09

In reply to "Unfriend" Declared Word of the Year
Hashtag? Really? It's not general purpose or popular enough to be included in a dictionary. 5 years from
now will we still be hash tagging on Twitter? I doubt it.

Unfriending also works offline.
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OCEntertainment
11/18/09

In reply to "Unfriend" Declared Word of the Year
Personally, I'm loving "intexicated" to describe the effect of texting while driving. Actually pretty clever.

As an aside to CNN: You just reported on a survey of Twitter users to determine the "Word of the Year" and came up with a Facebook term. You have officially lost all credibility and respect in my book.
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BergenCountyJC can edit his name?
11/18/09

In reply to "Unfriend" Declared Word of the Year
And here I always thought the correct term was de-friend.
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weatherman
11/18/09

@BergenCountyJC: I've always preferred defriendestration.
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
11/18/09

@weatherman: To throw someone or something out the window, or to defriend someone in a violent way?
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Katherine M Cox
10/26/09

In reply to Facebook Status: Resting In Peace
today is the third anniversary of the death of my best friend. i still visit his myspace page and write things on it on his birthday and the anniversary of his death. it's one of the only reasons i still have a myspace account. trust me, this is a really great, important idea. people who use facebook (or myspace) use it to keep in contact with people from distant places, and having a memorial page for a friend can be a very cathartic thing for a group of people spread out all over the world. i wish my friend had hopped on the facebook bandwagon back in 2006, because i would give anything to have another opportunity to look at his face and see what he used to think. #facebookdeath
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Curves
10/26/09

@Katherine M Cox: I still send IMs to someone 2 years after their death. Its actually a great source of comfort to me. Somehow, I think he gets them even in heaven.
God must have awesome Wifi. #facebookdeath
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collectiveego
10/27/09

@Curves: Thats called denial. #facebookdeath
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Curves
10/27/09

@collectiveego: It may be denial, but, its what I can bear. Who says denial is a bad thing anyway? Most people operate under at least some form of selective denial. Acceptance isnt always a good thing. If I accepted it, I would simply fall to pieces. #facebookdeath
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quillaja
10/27/09

@Curves: Everyone dies. #facebookdeath
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Curves
10/28/09

@quillaja: Its not MY death I cant accept. Try reading all the comments before you reply. #facebookdeath
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/26/09

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There's already a site for this.

[thegravebook.com] #facebookdeath
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Kaiser-Machead
10/26/09

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Kaiser-Machead: is X_X
Adam Frucci likes this
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MaQ
10/26/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Is there any point to write on your wall ?! #facebookdeath
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met2art
10/26/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Kaiser-Machead is a fan of Haunting Gizmodo Commenters from the Great Beyond. #facebookdeath
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OCEntertainment
10/26/09

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Excuse me while I go set up one of these for Abe Vigoda. #facebookdeath
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Coolmodo
10/26/09

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This is utterly absurd IMO. #facebookdeath
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coughiecup
10/26/09

@Coolmodo: Really? Do you have any dead friends on Facebook? #facebookdeath
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Coolmodo
10/26/09

@coughiecup: I don't use Facebook or the like. Do we really need Facebook pages dedicated to people who passed away? #facebookdeath
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Dr. Evil Genius
10/26/09

@Coolmodo: Facebook takes a live person's page that is no longer alive.

They then take that page created by the newly deceased and kinda "bronze" it for the friends of the fallen.

Does it make a little more sense to you? #facebookdeath
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Coolmodo
10/26/09

@Dr. Evil Genius: A page created by the "newly deceased" ? :) So the person will be Facebooking from the grave?

j/k

I understand the idea, but I don't understand why the pages can't just be deleted? #facebookdeath
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DennyCrane
10/26/09

@Coolmodo: Considering the brouhaha that happened when Facebook users tried to delete their own pages, I assume that page deletion is a hassle that FB would like to avoid as much as humanly possible. #facebookdeath
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met2art
10/26/09

@Coolmodo: It's merely the modern equivalent of allowing friends and loved ones to memorialize and pay respects to their deceased. I choose to see it as a way for spiritual beliefs and practices to "catch up" to modern social practices.

A cousin of mine, who passed away several years ago in sudden tragic circumstances, has a memorial myspace page. The thousands of family, friends, California firefighters, and emergency services personnel who knew him contributed to it. It has become a loving tribute to a young man who was deeply loved, and many stll visit it to "tell him" things he would have liked. It is, to me, the next step from visiting a grave to commune with the deceased spiritually. #facebookdeath
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Captain Nobody
10/26/09

In reply to Facebook Status: Resting In Peace
Capt Nobody is 6 feet underground ....... and helping his crops grow in Farmville! #facebookdeath
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ripfire
10/26/09

In reply to Facebook Status: Resting In Peace
Q: How do I change the status when I'm dead? #facebookdeath
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hoocli
10/26/09

@ripfire: A: you get your "friends" to, that is if you have any. #facebookdeath
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ripfire
10/26/09

@hoocli: Ouch!

If you were offended by that Twilight comment, then I apologize. #facebookdeath
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MePerson
10/13/09

In reply to The Inventor of the Web Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees
You know who I hate? People who say "h t t p colon backslash backslash w w w dot google dot com backslash" instead of just "google dot com".
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RogueWarrior
10/12/09

In reply to The Inventor of the Web Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees
Personally, I would love to get rid of the www. Three of the hardest letters to say. Probably Al Gore's idea. And sorry but saying "dub-dub-dub" does not make you cool.
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matt_mcmhn
10/12/09

@RogueWarrior: I don't think any browser actually requires that you type those in anymore. I certainly never do
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Jason Chen
10/12/09

@matt_mcmhn: It's still part of the spec, and some websites actually require it for some reason (they don't respond properly when you don't).
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LittleJon
10/13/09

@RogueWarrior: The myth is that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet (according to snopes.com it's just that, a myth). That's not the same as the World-Wide Web.

It's like the internet is the hardware and the World-Wide Web is the software (not a perfect analogy).

The Internet was a US invention. The WWW was invented by a Brit working at Cern, the European particle physics lab.
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Accelerata
10/13/09

@matt_mcmhn: The browser usually tries resolving the DNS name by appending and prepending a variety of common starts and endings. Even the websites don't need that, its just a convention for signifying servers that are global accessible as opposed to internally or locally only (which might not make sense to you unless you've worked in a big company that does internal IT management).
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tacomstng
10/13/09

@matt_mcmhn: Right, but the point of the article is that he is apologizing about the paper he has wasted. You might not have to type it in when you are directing your browser there, but you still need to include [www.anysite.com] when you are including it in a paper, or any type of formal business setting.
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Purple Dave
10/13/09

@tacomstng:
Yeah, well, if you eliminate one or both backslashes, how likely do you think it would be that any printed material you're working with would see an actual reduction in paper use? Newspapers wouldn't see a reduction, and most sane people would make a quick edit, or tweak some fonts/spacing if they ended up with a single word that would print out on its own page. Mostly, I'd say the only time his double-slash really caused any problems was back in the days when you had to type in every single character.
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XerxesQados
10/12/09

In reply to The Inventor of the Web Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees
Bullshit, it's not about trees. He just started using Twitter.
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FosterPigeon
10/12/09

In reply to The Inventor of the Web Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees
Cant we just change that now? Is that a stupid question. lets just fix it.
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nutbastard
10/12/09

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he could've altered history - slashdot would be colondot

*blew your mind*
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monkeyesq
10/12/09

@nutbastard: /. refers to root in Unix systems and doesn't have much to do with urls
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nutbastard
10/12/09

@monkeyesq:

are you serious? because i've always thought of it as the most clever URL ever.

URLs are bookended on one side by a slash, and on the other side by a dot.

so, when spoken: h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-com

am i the only one who thought it was simply clever?

maybe i'm not cut out for this whole nerd thing.
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The Lab
10/12/09

@nutbastard: There are nerds and then there are Unix nerds. As a nerd myself, Unix nerds scare me.
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ejdmoo
10/12/09

@monkeyesq: root in *nix systems is simply / not /.

nutbastard is correct. From the Slashdot FAQ:
[slashdot.org]

What does the name "Slashdot" mean?

"Slashdot" is a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL. When I originally registered the domain, I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable. Try reading out the full URL to [slashdot.org] and you'll see what I mean. Of course my cocky little joke has turned around and bit me in the butt because now I am called upon constantly to tell people my URL or email address. I can't tell you how many people respond confused "So do I spell out the 'dot' or is that just a period?"
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