One of this week's Urban Dictionary words of the day was this:

March 23: Facebookemon

The term used for the collection of people, on your Facebook friends list, that you don't actually talk to or know in real life. Related to popular tv program and game Pokemon, where the aim is to collect as many different Pocket Monsters as possible.

Dave - "Hey, my friends collection is getting up to two hundred"

Steve - "How many do you really know? Go admit it, most of them are Facebookemon"

John - "Gotta catch em all, gotta catch em all"

This word then inspired me to coin a term that is similar in meaning: Plurkemon.

In a nutshell, a Plurkemon is one of your fans on Plurk, as opposed to somebody on your Plurk friends list. Plurkemons are supposedly plurkers who by some wonderful or wicked (it all depends on what ensues) twist or fate landed on your Plurk page, found you quite interesting and asked you to add them up. You add them as fans of course. But it doesn't stop there.

Some of the more interesting Plurkemons I've come to know over the last few days actually aren't "mine." They're fans of a close friend and fellow plurker who currently goes by the Plurk display name, dal. I was going to link her name to her Plurk profile but I reckon she doesn't need the plug at all. She just informed me that today alone, 140 37 new Plurkemons were added to her account!

Anyhoo, what makes these Plurkemons interesting (read: by turns entertaining and annoying) are the incredible manner in which they manage to pop up with unintentionally funny replies and totally out-of-this-world comments to dal's often interrogative plurks. Case in point:

dal [says] how do you like your egg? scrambled.poached.. :-))
...
plurkemon1 [says] mas masarap ata ang scramble f ur, alone
...
plurkemon1 [says] masarap na kahit d mo na iluto, scramble mo lng ng mabilis.

Tsk, tsk. Taking a shot at a double entendre, are we now?

dal [asks] would you rather be invisible or invincible?
plurkemon2 [says] i rather be invincible..
plurkemon2 [says] but not for God..
plurkemon3 [says] none of the above..
plurkemon3 [says] God is the most powerful of all..

Er, Amen?

Gotta catch em all! On second thought, maybe not. :-P