Soldato
A Friday night subjective thread! Everyone will have different answers, so what are yours?
Right at the top of my list is, 'social media'. It was "social networking (Facebook, Friends Reunited etc) but that got changed to "social media" in the early 2010s, and *boom*, everything online is now social media. YouTube (2004), World of Warcraft (2004), forums (pre-WWW to present), instant messengers (pre-WWW to present) are apparently classed as such. Really? It's the bloody internet!
- 'climate change' - has become a press bingo word, where us kids were taught it as global warming. The greenhouse effect. The ozone layer, CFCs, smoking etc. Global warming.
- 'cost of living crisis' - I kinda understand this one, but it's still essentially a financial crisis, which we get in most decades. The press liked calling the 2008 financial crash the 'credit crunch' (at the time).
- 'online gaming' - when it refers to online gambling. Word-swapping gambling to gaming implies that it is a an innocent pastime. Granted I do online gambling myself, but I prefer to call it what it really is and admit that I do gamble.
- 'gentlemen's club' - is another word-swap where really it's a strip joint. Again it down-plays what it is.
- 'stay home' - old news is old, but it's stay AT home. Lazy writing! I'll accept stay @ home though if you want to be internet-cool, "down with the kids", late 90s style
- 'deep fake' - is the press' favourite term for what is basically a "Photoshop", by Photoshopping someone's head into a video or picture.
- 'AI' - similar to deepfake images, except that everything in the press is now apparently AI.
- 'meme' - is such an over-used term. Memes were small internet inside-jokes that later went viral and had a lasting effect. There would be a few memorable ones each year. Then maybe around 2015 onwards, 'memes' only last for a day then punters move onto the next, to the point that the whole idea of a meme loses all meaning because they're forgotten.
This last one is controversial, in that I find the gender terms rather pushy and political. Like unisex (e.g. toilets / items of clothing etc) is now gender neutral, and addressing someone by a he, she or they is called pronouns (instead of an address). HR departments are going to love this because of staff inadvertently miss-gendering someone because that someone didn't put their address he/she/they in their email signature. Stepping on eggshells.
Right at the top of my list is, 'social media'. It was "social networking (Facebook, Friends Reunited etc) but that got changed to "social media" in the early 2010s, and *boom*, everything online is now social media. YouTube (2004), World of Warcraft (2004), forums (pre-WWW to present), instant messengers (pre-WWW to present) are apparently classed as such. Really? It's the bloody internet!
- 'climate change' - has become a press bingo word, where us kids were taught it as global warming. The greenhouse effect. The ozone layer, CFCs, smoking etc. Global warming.
- 'cost of living crisis' - I kinda understand this one, but it's still essentially a financial crisis, which we get in most decades. The press liked calling the 2008 financial crash the 'credit crunch' (at the time).
- 'online gaming' - when it refers to online gambling. Word-swapping gambling to gaming implies that it is a an innocent pastime. Granted I do online gambling myself, but I prefer to call it what it really is and admit that I do gamble.
- 'gentlemen's club' - is another word-swap where really it's a strip joint. Again it down-plays what it is.
- 'stay home' - old news is old, but it's stay AT home. Lazy writing! I'll accept stay @ home though if you want to be internet-cool, "down with the kids", late 90s style
- 'deep fake' - is the press' favourite term for what is basically a "Photoshop", by Photoshopping someone's head into a video or picture.
- 'AI' - similar to deepfake images, except that everything in the press is now apparently AI.
- 'meme' - is such an over-used term. Memes were small internet inside-jokes that later went viral and had a lasting effect. There would be a few memorable ones each year. Then maybe around 2015 onwards, 'memes' only last for a day then punters move onto the next, to the point that the whole idea of a meme loses all meaning because they're forgotten.
This last one is controversial, in that I find the gender terms rather pushy and political. Like unisex (e.g. toilets / items of clothing etc) is now gender neutral, and addressing someone by a he, she or they is called pronouns (instead of an address). HR departments are going to love this because of staff inadvertently miss-gendering someone because that someone didn't put their address he/she/they in their email signature. Stepping on eggshells.
