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.
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.
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
@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
@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
@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
@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
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.
@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.
@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).
@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.
@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.
@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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now will we still be hash tagging on Twitter? I doubt it.
Unfriending also works offline.
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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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God must have awesome Wifi. #facebookdeath
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[thegravebook.com] #facebookdeath
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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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j/k
I understand the idea, but I don't understand why the pages can't just be deleted? #facebookdeath
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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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If you were offended by that Twilight comment, then I apologize. #facebookdeath
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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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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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*blew your mind*
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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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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?"