Verboticism: Lifestalked
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.
Lifestalked
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: li + fs + talkd
Sentence: Jenny was beginning to feel lifestalked. While in her car, pictures were taken of her movements at traffic lights. The state traffic agency knew her movements on the highway. She was getting numerous recordings on her phone from her credit card companies and politicians. While in a store, there were security cameras watching. At work, her internet and email use was monitored......Her whole life was being watched and recorded....was there nowhere she could go?
Etymology: Life + stalked >> Life (the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living) Stalked (Stalking is the obsessive following, observing, or contacting of another person, or the obsessive attempt to engage in any of these activities)
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Comments: Lifestalked
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 11:15:00
Captures every part and nuance of the definition excellently, easily remembered, know right away what it means, plus it pack an emotional punch! A superb create!