Posts Tagged ‘lol’

Sadly, You Are Probably Several Years Ahead of the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator

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When it came out ten years ago, the dack.com Web Economy Bullshit Generator helped tailor many a company’s mission statement to capture the zeitgeist for an entire generation of technology professionals. Well, the “zeit” of social media is upon us, hence the need for more jargon from the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™.

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WTF! Social Media Propels Oxford Dictionary To Accept OMG, LOL and More

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Instant Messaging clients like Messenger and ICQ once made terms like WTF and LOL mainstream, as they were used in person-to-person chats, but it can be said that the rise of social media has meant that these terms now live in the public domain, and are becoming ubiquitous in today’s culture. Oxford Dictionary agrees, as they’ve added a whole slew of WTF words to the library.

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