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Nexting

Updated : Tuesday 30 March 2010

The success of Chatroulette, the random video chat site bordering on the trashy, has given us a new word to enrich our vocabulary: nexting. It works like this: you are connected at random on Chatroulette to someone you don’t know. If you don’t like them, and don’t want to chat with them, all you have to do is click on the "next" button. With each click on “next”, you throw out, dump, zap – whatever you want to call it – the stranger on your screen. You next him.

By extension, nexting someone now means dumping them, not just on Chatroulette. You can next your boyfriend or girlfriend and get them out of your life, and you can even next an employee, i.e. you fire them. The word you use, of course, changes everything: being nexted is much better than being fired for slipshod work – it’s much more "Web.3.0"!

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