Verboticism: Spwatchandspontroll

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.
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Trackberry
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trakberē
Sentence: Rosie is more than happy with her trackberry and it’s ability to tell her how to not get lost. The GPS function can even tell her where to get a tasty eclair. Friends can track her whereabouts and meet up at a moment’s notice. She discovered its drawback the other day when she was about to give in to the urge for sweets and received a veto text from her mom. She now parks her SPiPHONE with a friend at the local health food store before heading to the pastry shop.
Etymology: track (follow the course or trail of someone or something) + Blackberry (brand of wireless phone/e-mail device)
Snoopsyology
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: snoop see o lo gy
Sentence: The trusted Dr. C Awl’s latest podcast of his students’ latest studies into what people do when they think nobody’s looking reached a conclusion that privacy no longer exists. Further research by the observed snoopsyologist will undoubtedly uncover even less about what we already know, or want to know, about people we don’t know. Dr. C. Awl does contend thick presence of various forms of surveillance will eliminate “gossip”, or “hearsay” as well as “curiosity” as eventually all will be heard and seen by all. The only really safe people will be the deaf and blind.
Etymology: From snoop (to spy on) and "ology" (any branch of knowledge or a science.)
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COMMENTS:
Dr. C Awl, snoopsyologist, was a great create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-28: 16:09:00
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Perveasivecomputing
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: pervasive computing
Sentence: I feel so much safer, yet somehow exposed with all the perveasivecomputing keeping track of me.
Etymology: perve (to spy on) + pervasive computing (technology everywhere)
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COMMENTS:
short sentence but so powerful! Plus a perve-ectly great verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:23:00
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Entrusion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: en troo sjun
Sentence: In an effort to keep their family safe, Henry and Marcia had installed high-tech, state of the art handheld surveillance devices. Although they thought this answered their fears, they did not realize that this entrusion applied to their daughter's love-life and they now knew way more than they wanted to...
Etymology: Engineering (the practical application of science to commerce or industry) & Intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)
Technotracking
Created by: Bughunt
Pronunciation: tek-noe-track-ing
Sentence: With technotracking, we can make sure your safe, your families safe, and prevent you from using competing devices! What comfort!
Etymology: techno from technology. + tracking.
Snowdonder
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: snow dun dur
Sentence: The government are Snowonder with details of our lives
Etymology: Snowdon, snowed under
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:
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! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:15:00
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Techsposed
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: tek-spozed
Sentence: Sam made a good living counting cards. All the Pit Bosses in Vegas knew him well so he had to disguise his face. Dressed as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew with hat, beard, sidelocks, and glasses, he managed to avoid detection from the biometric face-scanning surveillace cameras. What Sam didn't count on was the new addition to the table; the high denomination chip fingerprint scanner. Soon he was techsposed and the casino goons were making a beeline for his table.
Etymology: 1.tech - abbreviation for technology. 2.exposed - revealed or laid open to view.
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COMMENTS:
good one! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
Super Snooper Duper sentence and word! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:43:00
All bets are now off... - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:14:00
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Panoptechnology
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: pan äp′tek näl′ə jē
Sentence: He always felt as if he had been born a generation too late, listening to the older gentlemen at work talk about their younger years. Running red lights, toilet papering neighborhoods, the list went on and on. You couldn't get away with things like that these days, there are cameras everywhere - panoptechnology recording your every move.
Etymology: panoptic - including in one view everything within sight, a reference to Foucault's panopticon, a prison set up to monitor prisoners at all times, technology - applied science
