Unfriend

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Unfriend: Sigh...this word is everywhere today. Try to 'unuse' unfriend.

Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/38JvPl

FOM: Facebook’s ‘unfriend’ is Word of the Year

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Pseudobook or Pseudojack

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Pseudobook / Pseudojack: The unfortunate portmanteau of pseudonym and Facebook. Posing as another person on Facebook for the purposes of hijacking one's identity and use of same for fraud.

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FOM: Red Tape: Fraudsters 'hijack' Facebook accounts

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Apebook

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Apebook: The obvious portmanteau of Great Ape and Facebook. The start of the new 'Friend a Gorilla' project on Facebook.

Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/2J8Cm1

FOM: Fed up with your Facebook friends? Befriend a gorilla instead , Tweeting Ugandan gorillas make friends online and Gorilla.

Revised/Updated: Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

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Deadbook or Gravebook

Deadbook / Gravebook: The very tragic and unfortunate portmanteau of Facebook and...well...dead, death and/or grave. The posting of images on Facebook or some other social networking site by the authorities for purposes of identifying the unidentified dead and bringing those involved to justice.

Reference(s): Detectives Get Court Order to Post Facebook Page of Dead Girl and Facebook.

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Suebook or Suitbook

Suebook / Suitbook: The laughably unfortunate portmanteau of lawsuit and Facebook. (1) A lawsuit taken against Facebook for invasion of privacy. (2) Any untenable (and frivolous???) lawsuit taken against a social networking site.

Example: The case is a suebook. (As in, yeah, that will make it to court).

Reference(s): Sue Facebook for sharing your info? Seriously? and Facebook.

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Twacker

Twacker: The rather obvious portmanteau of Twitter and hacker. A person or persons responsible for the (malicious) shutdown of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and other internet websites.

See also: Twither and Twusher or Twiorger.

References: Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this time, Web attack blogger blames Russia, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Twacker, Twither, Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter , Twitter hack gets everyone's attention and Denial-of-Service Attack.

Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2009






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Twusher or Twiorger

Twusher / Twiorger: The rather unfortunate collision between Twitter and Russia or Georgia. (1) The attempt to shut down pro-Georgian tweets in retaliation over the conflict earlier last year. (2) The (malicious) shut-down of any social networking service, internet service, website or other digital media in retaliation for politically-charged postings.

References: Web attack blogger blames Russia, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Twacker, Twither, Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter , Twitter hack gets everyone's attention and Denial-of-Service Attack.



Revised / Updated: Sunday, August 9, 2009








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Twither

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Twither: The unfortunate portmanteau of Twitter and wither. (1) The virtual shutdown of Twitter, Facebook, Google etc. via Denial-of-Service Attack. (2) The (malicious) shutdown of any internet service, website, social networking site and so on via Denial-of-Service Attack for political or any other reasons.

See also: Twusher or Twiorger and Twacker.

References: Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this time, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter , Twitter hack gets everyone's attention and Denial-of-Service Attack.

Revised / Updated: Saturday, August 8, 2009. Sunday, August 9, 2009. Wednesday, August 12, 2009.







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