Thursday, December 21, 2006

NEW INTERNET ADDICTIONS

EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.
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 your grandmother's funeral." (A BlackBerry is a popular handheld device that can be used for phoning, emailing and web-browsing).
GOOGLE-STALKING: Defined as "snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates."
CYBERCHONDRIA: "A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer."
PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met.
WIKIPEDIHOLISM: Excess devotion to contributing to the online collaborative encyclopaedia,
Wikipedia's name (Wikipedia even has a page where you can test whether you're an addict: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are-You-a-Wikipediholic-Test)).
CHEESEPODDING: Downloading of a song "so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter." Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s.

1 comment:

Barb said...

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