February marks six years of poking, picture posting, stalking and miscellaneous relationship awkwardness on TheFacebook.com (as it was known then). Happy Birthday! Now I don’t know if you know this, but Facebook only used to be for kids in college. And the earliest adopters were either ivy leaguers or students at large big 12-ish universities.
Social media vernacular is amazing in its reach, and often hilarious in its final accepted form. Crowd sourcing is certainly interesting, and when you apply it to linguistics you never know what you may get. There is usually a semi-logical genesis for the terms we use. For example, in the world of online gaming the [...]
Watch a 1974 VW Bug get fed to an industrial shredder. Warning: contains fake hippies and bad acting
