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snack TV n. The content of YouTube (and Guba, Veoh and an army of imitators) includes home movies and viral (emailed) videos, amateur comedy and drama, short films, music videos and a mountain of copyright-breaching clips from well-known films and TV shows. It is a buffet of what is known as “snack TV”: light, bright and digestible. [English Media Online Television] [full cite] (Aug. 3, 2006)

snam n. Everyone knows what spam is—unwanted email. Snam is a mutant variant. It’s unwanted email generated by such “social networking” Web sites as Friendster, LinkedIn, and Tribe. Social networking…snam? Get it? [English Online Slang] [full cite] (May. 14, 2004)

snowshoe spamming adj. Like a snowshoe spreads the load of a traveler across a wide area of snow, some spammers use many frequently-changing IP addresses and domains to spread out the spam load in order to dilute recipient reputation metrics and evade filters. Conversely, legitimate mailers try hard to build their brand reputation based on a known domain and a small permanent range of sending IPs. Snowshoers also use anonymized or unidentifiable whois records, whereas legitimate senders are proud to provide their real identity. [English Online Technology Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 15, 2008)

snurfing n. After she says that a woolly mammoth has put the fire out and that she’s fine and gets another ho-hum reaction from Jim, she accuses him of “snurfing,” the word Comcast has come up with to describe the act of surfing the internet when you are supposed to be on the phone. [English Online Factitious] [full cite] (Sep. 27, 2007)

social nerdwanking n. Coined by R. Stevens in his webcomic Diesel Sweeties, “social nerdwanking” means lording your social-network superiority over others, which is secretly the only reason you bother with Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Orkut, and every other social network. Except your legitimate if fruitless use of Adult FriendFinder. [English Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Dec. 11, 2007)

soft client n. Three of those options, the VoIP, cell and desktop computer phone (a “soft client” in the parlance of geekdom), have the option of picking any area code I want the receiving party to see. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 3, 2006)

spamment n. My Texas Holdem spammer seems to be taking a break. I didn’t get a single spamment during the night, whereas I had been cleaning up over 100 of these every morning for the past few days. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (May. 5, 2006)

squeefully adv. It was, in the parlance of the fandom, “squeefully” exciting. [English Online] [full cite] (May. 23, 2007)

streamie n. TV has its couch potatoes, and now the Internet has a new name for distinguishing, and tracking heavy users of streamed video and audio content. In new research being unveiled today, Knowledge Networks/SRI has dubbed heavy users of such online content “streamies,” and has found that they spend far more time online than the average Internet user. [English Media Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 2, 2007)

Streisand effect n. The lesson the AACS seems unwilling to learn is sometimes referred to as the Streisand Effect, in reference to the aging chanteuse who didn’t want photos of her home published, and only encouraged even more people to publish them. [English Entertainment Online] [full cite] (May. 6, 2007)

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