DEFINITION: n. The uneasy comfort that comes from knowing that your family, your friends, the police, the taxman, and every marketer in the world, are using the newest technology track your every move. v. To lose your privacy due to technology.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Digitabs: /dih-jih-tabs/ The only way anyone would know about my brass instrument fetish is if they were keeping digitabs on me. Etymology: to keep tabs on someone + digital Created by: FreakyDeak.
Internetrude: /Int ter net rood/ When Paris gave her farmer’s wife Mom a communication/video surveillance device for Christmas, she thought it was good for her Mom to phone or text people and feel protected in her home. She thought it was cute how slowly Mom embraced any new-fangled gadgetry. Little did she know that Mom’s new toy gave her the ability to internetrude on Paris’s active love life. How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paris??? Etymology: Internet (a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange) & Intrude (enter uninvited) & Rude (socially incorrect in behavior;lacking civility or good manners)
Created by: Nosila.
Trackberry: /trakberē/ Rosie is more than happy with her trackberry and it’s ability to tell her how to not get lost. The GPS function can even tell her where to get a tasty eclair. Friends can track her whereabouts and meet up at a moment’s notice. She discovered its drawback the other day when she was about to give in to the urge for sweets and received a veto text from her mom. She now parks her SPiPHONE with a friend at the local health food store before heading to the pastry shop. Etymology: track (follow the course or trail of someone or something) + Blackberry (brand of wireless phone/e-mail device) Created by: artr.
Orwellwellwell: /orr well well well/ their orwellian moment became an Orwellwellwellian moment when the caught their neighbours perverted activities on google earth. Etymology: Orwell, well,well,well, Created by: galwaywegian.
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