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It's interesting that the word "photoshopped" is being used for this kind of manipulation as well.

by tazjin 11y ago

gedrap 11y ago
I found it fairly odd as well, then checked the domain, insideairbnb.com, what the hell? Sounds like some corporate blog domain. But no, it's not. Tiny yet frustrating detail.
Steuard 11y ago
I took it as a humorous(?) play on the dual meanings of the word "snapshot". What originated as a term for a quick photograph[0] evolved to have a metaphorical meaning of "a record of something as it existed at a single moment". So using "photoshop" in this way is just a cute way of extending the metaphor (while borrowing some of the dishonest connotations of photoshopping as well). [0] Or evidently earlier as a term for a quick, roughly aimed shot from a gun. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snapshot http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snapshot
thefrostytruth 11y ago
It's just bad writing. It muddies their actual meaning, and an unfortunate metaphor that gets in the way--does more to confuse than illuminate. These guys are onto something big, but they're not great at presenting it.
- sosborn 11y ago
  And before you know it the word is redefined in Merriam Webster. Literally.
  - thefrostytruth 11y ago
    For every "literally" there's a "really." http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2005/11/the_word_we_love_to_hate.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2005/11/the... http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002611.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002611.h...
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- matthewowen 11y ago
  Somewhat disagree. I instantly understood the metaphor.
  - smt88 11y ago
    It made me have to pause for a minute because it was adjacent to a graph. It made me think Airbnb had published a graph somewhere and that their graph had been altered in some way that could be described loosely as "photoshopped".
itslennysfault 11y ago
Maybe I'm just to literal, but when I read that I paused and wondered why you'd manually modify a report in photoshop. I'm now sure it was meant colloquially as "modified" but when I read the article I figured they meant it literally.

It's interesting that the word "photoshopped" is being used for this kind of manipulation as well.

by tazjin 11y ago

It's interesting that the word "photoshopped" is being used for this kind of manipulation as well.

I found it fairly odd as well, then checked the domain, insideairbnb.com, what the hell? Sounds like some corporate blog domain. But no, it's not. Tiny yet frustrating detail.

Steuard 11y ago

I took it as a humorous(?) play on the dual meanings of the word "snapshot". What originated as a term for a quick photograph[0] evolved to have a metaphorical meaning of "a record of something as it existed at a single moment". So using "photoshop" in this way is just a cute way of extending the metaphor (while borrowing some of the dishonest connotations of photoshopping as well). [0] Or evidently earlier as a term for a quick, roughly aimed shot from a gun. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snapshot http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snapshot

thefrostytruth 11y ago

It's just bad writing. It muddies their actual meaning, and an unfortunate metaphor that gets in the way--does more to confuse than illuminate. These guys are onto something big, but they're not great at presenting it.

sosborn 11y ago
And before you know it the word is redefined in Merriam Webster. Literally.
- thefrostytruth 11y ago
  For every "literally" there's a "really." http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2005/11/the_word_we_love_to_hate.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2005/11/the... http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002611.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002611.h...
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matthewowen 11y ago
Somewhat disagree. I instantly understood the metaphor.
- smt88 11y ago
  It made me have to pause for a minute because it was adjacent to a graph. It made me think Airbnb had published a graph somewhere and that their graph had been altered in some way that could be described loosely as "photoshopped".

itslennysfault 11y ago

Maybe I'm just to literal, but when I read that I paused and wondered why you'd manually modify a report in photoshop. I'm now sure it was meant colloquially as "modified" but when I read the article I figured they meant it literally.