Finding yourself spending more and more time online, checking out searches for your name using Google (egosurfing)? What about looking through other peoples' pictures on Flickr (photolurking)? The New Scientist has a word for pretty much whatever you are doing:
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
What do you suffer from?
Link: New Scientist: Just can't get e-nough (thanks, Matt!)
Comment posted by Charles Robinson12/22/2006 03:20:48 PM
Homepage: http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com
I'm definitely afflicted with infornography. I've considered doing some blog streaking, but I thought better of it.
Comment posted by SAKO01/24/2007 04:34:55 AM
Homepage: http://blog.ateava.com/
Does You Tube "Fridays" count as an internet addiction?
SA - http://blog.ateava.com/
Comment posted by Gregg Eldred01/24/2007 09:02:15 AM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf
@2: LOL! Yeah, I would say that is an 'addiction.' You can't just watch 1 video.
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