English

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Etymology

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From forum +‎ -ing.

Noun

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foruming (uncountable)

  1. (Internet slang) Participation in an Internet forum.
    • 2010, Russell W. Belk, Research in Consumer Behavior, page 297:
      In a foruming context, positioning, thus, implies the use of a set of available tools that are mostly linked to cognitive artifacts around the exchanged texts. [] It is especially interesting to see how social identities arise and develop, all the more since most of them are explicitly given and affirmed in online forums.