The Top 10 New Online Words

Luxcession: verb. – As the economy continues to hit consumers’ wallets and affect their purchasing choices, many mass-class luxury items are also taking a hit.

Dotcomrade: noun. – A friend or acquaintance you met online but have never met in person.

Greenwashing: noun. – The practice of bogus environmental marketing.

Info Snacking: verb. – Wasting time at work by surfing the Web.

Blacking Out: verb. – To turn off any device by which people can reach you (cell phone, two-way, computer, home phone, Morse code, etc.) in order to avoid someone.

Compunicate: verb. – To chat with someone when you are in the same room, each on separate computers, but you talk via Instant Messenger instead of speaking to them out loud.

Defriend: verb. – To remove somebody from your established list of contacts, considered the ultimate snub on the social network.

Generica: noun. – Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where you go, such as strip malls and fast-food places.

Mouse Potato: noun. – The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.

Googleganger: noun. – Another individual with the same name as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google yourself.

Source: Cramer-Krasselt

So do you have any creative new expressions of your own? I would love to hear them!