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‘Blog’, ‘Cookie’, ‘Wiki’ Most Hated Words

According to a recent study by YouGov who questioned 2,091 adults the words “Blog”, “netiquette”, “cookie” and “wiki” have been voted among the most irritating words created by the Internet.

Topping the list of words most likely to make web users “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard” was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system.

“Blogosphere”, the collective name for blogs or online journals, was second; “blog” itself was third; “netiquette”, or Internet etiquette, came fourth and “blook”, a book based on a blog, was fifth.

Personally I hate the word Blogosphere, sounds like a product that should have been announced in 1998. What are your least favorite words?

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  • maijc

    SPAM!!!!!! and 403, among others…

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    What about DUPE?

  • http://www.jasonblogs.com JasonBlogs

    when people actually speak the word “lol”

  • Tom

    Dam, you’ll love this shirt!

    http://www.questionablecontent.net/shirts/blogosphere.png

    check out the merch page at http://www.questionablecontent.net/merch.php for the shirt itself.

    And no, I’m not affiliated with the site, just a fan of the cartoon.

  • http://mykalcave.com Myke

    I too don’t like the word blog. I think it just sounds comical and juvenile. I think we have myspace to partially blame for that.

    I think there are some great writers out there that blog but its almost discrediting to them when they or someone else refers to their writing as a “blog”. It’s like a fad word. If that makes sense.

  • http://web.mac.com/barra_240t Nigel

    lol would have to be the worst word ever

    When did it actually become a word?

  • chad

    hmmm I have a personal list of rather odd ones

    F1rst P05T!
    Adkins
    Carb
    Spam
    WMD
    Blog
    Blogosphere
    MySpace
    Facebook
    Web 2.0

    it goes on and on.

  • Ryan

    blogosphere
    web 2.0

  • padieg

    LOL used as a verb, really, i’ve seen it written a lot of times, specially on comments.

  • Jerry

    “I think we have myspace to partially blame for that.”

    There’s one now!

  • Brian

    This is not an exact word, but I blame the Internet for the increase in confusion with the words your and you’re.

  • Annon

    High Tide

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