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by WAHa_06x36 2602 days ago
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.

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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.