I found this on an on-line news service:
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 encyclopedia,
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.
OK, I'll admit it, I am a Cheesepodder.
But admitting it is the first step to a cure.