Verboticism: Socianoid

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)
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.
Scareveillance
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: scair-VAYL-ehns
Sentence: At first Wilhelmena found the constant scrutiny of her whereabouts and activities to be comforting but as she found it to be more and more intrusive she became somewhat paranoid and began to refer to it as scareveillance, and wished she knew how to put an end to it.
Etymology: Blend of 'scare' (frighten) and 'surveillance' (The act of observing or the condition of being observed)
Scrutinanny
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skroōtnanē
Sentence: The Wilsons originally installed their CCTV system as a security measure. They soon found that it was a way to keep tabs on their sometimes-too-active daughter. The system became a virtual scrutinanny. For some strange reason, their darling offspring couldn't wait to get out of the house each morning. Mom couldn't understand why she started referring to herself as an inmate.
Etymology: scrutiny (critical observation or examination) + Nanny (a person, typically a woman, employed to care for a child in its own home)
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COMMENTS:
No chance her becoming a screwtinanny then? love it! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
Maybe it's time for the Super Scrutinanny? - readerwriter, 2009-02-27: 11:04:00
Ah ... even parents ... are becoming Big Brothers ... and your create is a perfect verbotomy for them! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:12:00
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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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Bigbrotherbustedya
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: big-broth-er-busted-ya
Sentence: Crystal knew there were video cameras watching her yet,she forgot as her boyfriend Romeo went in for the big first kiss. The next thing she knew loud horns started blowing and the lights brightened and flickered on and off! Her Dad Henry walked in and said,"Crystal I told you I had the security company come in...so now you can't get away with having boys over because the surveilance system has a feature that sounds alarms when "Bigbrotherbustedya" motion detetectors go off" YOU are grounded!
Etymology: Big Brother;The surveillance cameras that watch everything you do...Busted;Got caught! Ya;YOU.
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
Facespooked
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: fays-spookt
Sentence: Frank, was...well, frankly, freaked. Obviously, he hadn't thought through the consequences of who he accepted as friends on Facebook. And now, his English teacher from 8th grade was correcting his grammar! At 7.35AM that morning, to answer, "What are you doing right now?" Frank had said, "I can't get no satisfaction." By 7.37AM, Miss Primm had commented, "Frank, it is 'I can't get any satisfaction.' Remember our lessons on the double negative?" He was getting Facespooked!
Etymology: Playing on FACEBOOK + SPOOK, to haunt, scare, frighten
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COMMENTS:
-excellent word; LOL sentence! - splendiction, 2009-02-27: 18:40:00
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Orwellwellwell
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: orr well well well
Sentence: their orwellian moment became an Orwellwellwellian moment when the caught their neighbours perverted activities on google earth.
Etymology: Orwell, well,well,well,
