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Posted on 12/19/2006 8:14:31 PM PST by martin_fierro
Photolurking, blog streaking and cheesepodding: The new Internet addictions
Tue Dec 19, 1:31 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday.
They include these:
- 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. (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.
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Do you like cheese?
Definitely some songs in my iTunes library I'm a little ashamed of.
Oh, gawd, I'm a cheesepodder.
Once every three months or so.
- BLOG STREAKING:
I learned my lesson on this already. I actually have my own stalkers now.
- CRACKBERRY:
If I had one of these, I would be this way.
- GOOGLE-STALKING:
Oh, I am REALLY good at this. If I have your email addy, you are toast. I will find out where you went to high school and everything.
- CYBERCHONDRIA:
LOL!! I was at the doctor three months ago, absolutely convinced that I had Hodgkin's because my online research brought on all the symptoms instantaneously." Itching? No, I... YES!! Suddenly I itch!! Oh God!!"
- PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met.
OH yeah. I get on someone's MySpace page and the next thing you know, I've read their blogs, looked through their pictures, and am ready to write and tell them, "He's not right for you! You can do better!"
- WIKIPEDIHOLISM:
No. I am utterly free of this one.
- 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.
Man, if I could fined Manfred Mann's "I Came For You" on iTunes, I would die happy.
I'm not obsessed with updating Wikipedia, but I can spend hours on their looking at different pages. The only time I have ever changed anything was some vadalism about my beloved Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Air Supply got the best of you once or twice, lol?
I went to my doctor once for something and he told me to STAY AWAY from looking the condition up on the net. Said I would just scare myself needlessly with worst case scenarios.
PHOTOLURKING:
I often have a strong urge to go look at pictures of other people's cats to confirm that mine are still the cutest!
Well, all I can say is it sounds like Muskrat Love to me...
Does "The Pina Colada Song" count?
Shannon is gone
I hope she's drifting out to sea
She always loved to swim away
Maybe she'll find an island
With a shaded tree
Just like the one in our backyard
It's now an official condition. Oh lord, I need help.
Do I qualify for ADA benefits?
Uh, yeah, thet's gota be the defining song!
(I do have it, btw. Need the MP3? )
FEEEEELINGS...
Nothing more than....
FEEEEELINGS...
I've had it for years. Also, "Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield and the Human League doing "Don't You Want Me."
How about Aldo Nova "Fantasy"? That song KICKS!
- EGO-SURFING: Only to confirm my true identity appears as little as possible
- BLOG STREAKING: See above.
- CRACKBERRY: No pager, no cell, no blackberry. No coverage in Tijeras.
- GOOGLE-STALKING: Why?
- CYBERCHONDRIA: My imagination does not require this.
- PHOTOLURKING: No, unless I can hotlink something to FR that is silly.
- WIKIPEDIHOLISM: No
- CHEESEPODDING: Slim don't do no pod.
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