I hate a few words, one of which is “ping.” Ping is an okay word if used to discuss a brand of golf equipment or to talk about “pinging” a server. Ping, however, should never be used to mean “to receive an email from” or “to recieve a phone call from.”

I was reading Digg I saw the following sentence and almost vomited. “A friend pinged me and said he’d gotten a call from a Microsoft recruiter trying to fill a position…” I love one this response in the comments, “pinged”? What are you, a f*ing robot or something?”