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[unspeakablehorror]

So out of morbid curiosity, I felt compelled to look up the origin of the word carrd, which I've seen people use in place of the word bio. I had assumed it was simply some sort of contrived acronym.

But apparently it's not.

It's the name of a company that specializes in single page websites.

Which I think is just.

Really cursed.

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[osteophage]

Have people been calling a bio a "carrd" even if it's not actually a carrd page? Because that would be weird.

[unspeakablehorror]

I don't know. Mostly I just don't like the fact that this company name has become an increasingly popular replacement to using 'bio' or 'about' regardless whether it's being used when people are using that particular site for those or not. It's not uncommon for me to have negative reactions to certain new vocabulary used in certain contexts, and this just happens to be one of them! In this case my dislike is linked to it being a company name/product. Which is something that's done all the time, but seeing this just made me wonder how many words are going to be supplanted like that, and combined with how much basic human social interaction has fallen under the control of corporations just gives me a very bad feeling! Plus I hate hate hate the idea of a single page website as something people pay for! Awful! Cursed!

So no, this is not 'this word use is wrong' or even 'this has completely replaced the usage of bio or about' (though I don't like seeing it used more and more in replacement of those) so much as 'I just don't like it'.