Having been launched just a few months ago and only totally 85,000 users (at any one point in time) as of February 20, the Chatroulette phenomenon is already generating it’s own cult lingo. The Urban Dictionary defines “F9” as the act of “going through relationships rapidly, or to be promiscuous.” Still confused? So was I. “F9” derives from Chatroulette, where the F9 key brings up another chat-partner.

Vaguebooking’s core concept lies within the status writer’s ability to bait its readers while still remaining elusive. It is always confessional, provocative and indeterminably sly. Bob was wrong to do that. Jane should have handled that better. These phrases are consistently open-ended but hint at something more just below their surface.

One of Voxel’s managed hosting customers, Urban Dictionary, was the recent subject of a Facebook craze and a 20x boost in traffic compared with its previous record. Raj Dutt, Voxel’s chief executive officer, pointed to three offerings that helped Urban Dictionary deal with the influx.

And people wonder why children these days are so illiterate.

He then instructed viewers to go online to urbandictionary.com, a Wikipedia-like website that allows users to enter definitions for words and slang, to redefine the magazine’s new name “in the most jaw-dropping terms imaginable.”

…As of 3:30 p.m. Friday, the website had attracted 412 definitions, most of which carry descriptions so graphic in nature they can’t be detailed here.

Now, there’s no official Facebook theme team, decreeing these silly fads from on high. These are grass-roots memes that spread virally throughout the site, making them difficult to trace back to an origin with any certainty.

Ted Sporer, a Des Moines attorney and veteran GOP strategist, was so upset by a group of British protesters who last week criticized former prime minister Tony Blair that he used a derogatory slur against homosexuals to attack them. However, Sporer says he was unaware that the term he used was considered an anti-gay slur.