The latest issue of New Scientist has a little tongue-in-cheek piece about bad habits people develop online. The full article is available free online, along with a few "confessions." Here's a glossary from one of the sidebars:
Modern maladies
Blog streaking Revealing secrets or personal information online, which for everybody's sake would be best kept private
Crackberry The curse of the modern executive, not being able to stop checking your BlackBerry even at you grandmother's funeral
Cyberchondria A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer
Egosurfing When "just checking" gets out of control
Infornography You're beyond being a healthy "infovore": acquiring and sharing information has become an addiction for you
You Tube narcissism Not even your closest family want to see hours of your holiday videos
Google-stalking Snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates
MySpace impersonation Many of us pretend to be someone we're not when we are online, but some will pretend to be a well-known figure
Powerpointlessness One too many flashy slides
Photolurking Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met
Wikipediholism Excessive devotion to a certain online collaborative encyclopedia. You can test whether you're an addict at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test
Link: Just can't get e-nough - tech - 20 December 2006 - New Scientist Tech.
I loved your post. :) I've written one about really existing weird syndromes in the same topic. But yours is more creative...
Posted by: NCurse | Monday, January 01, 2007 at 10:13 AM