A user who uses a thing more than it was designed for — a power user — from software into social media, where the power users of Digg and Reddit shaped the front page and were, in Digg's case, its downfall. The record's entry for the enthusiast as an institution.
Overheard in a supermarket queue, Mar this year: a parent saying "Power User" to a toddler, entirely straight-faced. The toddler understood. I did not, for a second.
Correction to the headnote: Power User was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
The record notes 'power user' is a compliment in software and a warning on a platform, and that the record is one of the second kind on several.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
