2006-09-23 01:39:34 · 9 answers · asked by Dandylion 2 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Drug Dealers don't call their clients users. The Media refers to them in a derogatory manner as a means of social stigmatising.
Software developers think of themselves as more capable than the technophobes and so also treats them in a derogatory manner. It is a way of retaining property rights you don't own the programme you're just an "end user".
2006-09-23 03:10:15 · answer #1 · answered by Ashley K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL
The cancer support center my friend works in in Tottenham also calls its clients 'users'.
2006-09-23 01:43:13 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly for the same reason that railway companies nowadays insist on calling passengers "customers" instead. It's just a fad, and sounds fancy.
2006-09-23 02:08:32 · answer #3 · answered by Dover Soles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drug sellers do no longer call their clientele "clientele." lots extra undemanding highway words, based upon the drug, may well be "fiend," "cluck" (like a chicken pecking for crack), "geeker," "widely used," "smoker," "junkie," or purely easy "funds." I doubt application builders use any of those words different than the final.
2016-10-17 12:10:00 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theres users the theres abusers
2006-09-23 01:47:29 · answer #5 · answered by FLOYD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they both have customers who are totally dependant upon them.
2006-09-23 01:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by Well, said Alberto 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it has lots of dosh in it.
2006-09-23 21:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps they are the same people
2006-09-23 01:41:19 · answer #8 · answered by Alfred E. Newman 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
why worry
2006-09-23 01:56:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋