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Google, Facebook, Twitter...

You are USED to them, so they don't sound stupid. If you heard them for the first time, they'd sound utterly stupid.



Facebook sounds like what it is. Twitter has been discussed in this thread elsewhere (bird imagery makes sense). Google is essentially a nonsense word that turns out to be a real word based on a really big number (which makes sense).

Someone recommended finding evidence of people complaining about names back when these services first came out. I don't recall ever thinking any of these names were stupid, despite other issues I had with the services.




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