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Do you want me to comment here or do you want me to blog about this?

Personally I don’t even like the term “blog”. I prefer online journaling, however pretentious that sounds. But it makes it hard to talk to people about my website because I just can’t bring myself to say that I blog.

Anyway, I can’t really think of misused Internet terms. But I was watching TV the other day and I could SWEAR the speaker said “Do you like the Internets?” Yes, internetS. I even asked my boyfriend and he said that’s what it sounded like. I want to reply “Why yes I like the Internets, I personally own 5 thank you!”

Hmm misused terms? Okay I got one totally lame one that I see one several of my friend’s tagboards. Example:

Daisy: Hello Mary please relink me.
Mary: Relinked

Like what on earth is relink? There is no such thing! Argh, it irritates me a lot.

I sometimes do this very thing even though I know that it is wrong. I promise I will try to do better, lol.

Wow… I never knew that! I’ve never said “I wrote a blog” or whatever but others have said it to me. Well, thanks for the useful blog ENTRY (see what I did there?), it was educational.

Wow I am so totally writing a blog today!

Only teasing.

Me being the lazy person that I am, I generally just say I’ve written a new entry.

It is so nice to know someone else feels the same. I do wonder if Tom from myspace has changed that yet.

It’s really sad, that unless a certain action is a relatively important part of one’s life, people are unable to present anything even remotely correct about it.

I remember one day mom called me to watch a talk show about blogs, on a popular Romanian news channel. I got so frustrated within 5 minutes. They kept analysing and over analysing things, and just plain dealing with it as if it were some very “weird and (possibly) dangerous phenomenon”.

I never actually heard anyone say that he wrote a blog. Maintain one yes, but not write one…

I usually just say “I’ve posted in my blog” or something along those lines. I’ve also had a similar rant about it before… About how some people like using terms they’re not so familiar with, especially among others who’re not expected to understand such terms (to show that they’re more capable perhaps). Really glad to know that I’m not the only one getting annoyed over something like this.

OMG, I sooooo agree. I really think Myspace is the culprit for starting all of this. Myspace refers to blog entries as blogs. The link to write a new entry is titled “post a new blog.” It bugged me sooo much to see all these people first hear of blogs with this incorrect terminology.

All of the Fox affiliates are bad about this too. Maybe this is what you saw on TV. They have myFoxOrlando (or whatever city) websites, where they encourage you to write in during newscasts with your opinion. They say post a blog, etc. I think our station actually says “blog us!!” ehhh?

I bet Jem will agree with me on this one when people talk about “CSS Stylesheets.”

I think I may have misused the word blog a few times, but I won’t anymore. I think it’s becoming a nerb (noun that becomes a verb) like “Google”. I love it when news stations/newspapers try to sound all cool and “with it” and they end up sounding stupid to anyone else.

lol!! I haven’t wrote a blog on my site in awhile. I should get around to writing a blog about that meme I got tagged with. Yeah, I should totally write a blog about that!

I’ve heard people say, “I have the internet now” meaning they have a new internet connection/access. >_>

I think I’m going to write a BLOG about how awesome you are. Since you are teaching me the ways of the net… a BLOG written specially for you will show you how appreciative I am. Ok now my brain hurts.

*stealz pillow and runs away*

Can I have a cookie?

I’ve heard this more than once-

Friend: I need to get a spyware program on my computer”
Me: ???
Me: Oh, you mean ANTI-Spyware

Same for Anti-Virus. And one time someone asked me about McAfee’s Norton.

LOL at Bran’s comment.
*feels proud to have always used “blog” correctly*
I always just say “I’m going to post an entry on my blog today”

“I wrote a blog today.” Translation: “I wrote a website today.” LULZ!

I wish I could start working on my blog today, but current events… really great current events… are stealing all my cash flow! So I can’t afford to get hosting just yet.

But I will defiantly have much to post about in my blog!

Haha this post is awesome and full of win.

Ahh, I love this entry.

I generally get annoyed when people (non-webmasters) ask me “Do you use Dreamweaver or do you use HTML?” (when building a website) And I start to think ‘Ummm, Dreamweaver uses HTML too. It only codes it for you.’

Dreamweaver or HTML! LMAO! Hilarious!!

Woops *slaps wrist* I’m pretty sure I’ve misused the term “blogging/blogged/blog” even though I know the definition. Shame. On. Me.

Misused terms? Hm…CSS Stylesheet seems to be a favourite of tutorial-ists. There are probably more but I can’t remember them, hah.

This probably sounds stupid but I guess I kind of have to stand up for the people who make these mistakes… I mean, it could have been a mistake I could make (not anymore, thanks for sharing what is the right way to use it). Lots of people don’t use English as their first language… and they improve their English vocabulary, grammar etc. by reading other people’s websites, and adopting their way of writing, at least I seem to do this. I understand it can be extremely annoying if someone uses the wrong words, but I guess it should be important to keep in mind that some of us don’t know all the rules of proper English…

That said, thanks for teaching me all these things… it’s awesome! ^^

Lol, I’d never thought about this before! Clearly I fail at speaking English!

Wow, FINALLY someone who points this out. “Blog” being used incorrectly just gets on my nerves, and I see it everywhere!

I second Clem - the only times I can think of people misusing terms are when they turn nouns into verbs: “Google me.” “I facebooked you yesterday.” “Myspace me a message.”

I tend to stay away from the word “blog” because “web log” reminds me too much of Captain’s logs and things like that. I feel like I should be noting the weather and my coordinates in every entry. So I generally refer to my website as a journal, but then of course you get the people who say “I’m writing a journal today.”

Hey,

http://shiny.nu

Look similar?

I disagree with Michelle: “Google” is becoming a verb! I don’t care what anybody says!

I totally agree with you but I’ve never personally seen this done.

Oh! I know another one! Some people use “content” as a link in their navigation when technically, everything on the website is content.