Blexting

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

Saw a new verb today: blexting.


According to the company who does it, it means texting photos of abandoned buildings in Detroit. There are a lot of them (I pass dozens on the way to work every day). They do this so the buildings can be entered into a data base and their owners tracked down or the buildings improved or demolished.



http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20140216/NEWS/302169966/lovelands-passion-battle-blight (might be paywalled...)


UrbanDictionary has a homophone meaning something nsfw.


So far Google only seems to have Loveland's website for the clean version and UD for the not so clean one.


Geoff


Geoffrey S. Nathan
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