Online afflictions

I didn't need a walkie to-day.
Did housework instead.
*rolls eyes*

Idle surfing as I rest up, saw this cute article on the newest things 'net users inflict upon themselves. Amusing read. :) s'a short one so I'll post it here in full.

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.

- 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.

Lemme see..... on my own posts? Possibly guilty of blog streaking. But I try and keep that to a minimum, eh? And since when was google stalking a malady? Heh.


So what are YOU guilty of? :)