The AFP reports that words like blog, wiki, blogosphere and folksonomy have topped a recent poll of hated Internet words. Folksonomy was found to the most irritating web word of them all.
"Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday.
Topping the list of words most likely to make web users "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard" was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system.
"Blogosphere", the collective name for blogs or online journals, was second; "blog" itself was third; "netiquette", or Internet etiquette, came fourth and "blook", a book based on a blog, was fifth.
"Cookie", a file sent to a user's computer after they visit a website, came in ninth, while "wiki", a collaborative website edited by its readers, was tenth.
Folksonomy is an irritating web word but it is used more often than you might think. Folksonomy has over 11 million results on Google.
