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Definition: TL; DR
The abbreviated version of "Too Long; Didn't Read."
Used to reply to someone when they have sent you a text, article, blog post, or email rant whose length makes your eyes cross and click away from it.
Not a problem on Twitter.
Definition: Blog Burnout Guilt
If you've ever started a blog post with the words "Hey all, I know it's been a long time since my last post . . .
Definition: We-Mail
Noun. The joint venture that is a couple using a single email address, i.e., "janeandjohn@gmail.com".
Can be the primary email address for the couple, or in addition to their personal email addresses.
Definition: Communifaking
The practice of pretending to be on a phone call or reading a text message or email, so as to look busy and avoid being bothered in public.
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Definition: Entertainment Debt
Entertainment Debt is the term having too much media to consume in too little time — including unwatched shows on your DVR, unspun Netflix discs, and unread magazines and items in your RSS reader.
A surprising form of stress from stuff that is supposed to be fun!
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Definition: CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA is the name for the words that you are asked to type on websites to ensure you're not a robot.
Sometimes they're so jumbled that you keep getting them wrong, and sometimes they're unintentionally hilarious.
Occasionally, they boost your vocabulary.
Definition: Googleganger
Similar to a doppelganger, who is your physical twin, a Googleganger is someone "with the same name as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google yourself."
True story: When I started dating my boyfriend, he Googled me, only to find someone with the same name as me who wrote awful amateur love poetry. Luckily, he liked me enough to see past the terrible poems — at least until he told me he saw my poems, and I explained that I merely had a Googleganger!
Definition: PEBKAC
An acronym for "problem exists between keyboard and chair." Often used by IT guys at happy hour.
(Sidenote: I certainly hope no one has ever described my situation as "PEBKAC.")
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Definition: Ringtone Nostalgia
The condition whereby you fly into a frenzy to find your ringing cell phone, only to find that it has not, in fact, been ringing at all; what you have heard is a phone with your former ringtone. Highly disconcerting.
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