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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Modern Internet Addiction

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 saturdy.They include these;
1.Ego-surfing: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.
2.Blog streaking: Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody's sake would best kept private.
3.Crackberry: The curse of the modern excutive not being able to stop checking your Blackberry,even at your grandmother's funeral.
4.Google Stalking: Defined as " snooping"online on old friends colleague or first date.
5.Cyberchondria:A headche and a particular rash at the same time?Extensive online researchers tells you it must be cancer.
6.Photolurking:Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met.
7.Wikipediholis: Excess devotion to contributing to the online collaborative encyclopadia Wikipedia(Wikipedia even has a page where you can test whether you're an addict;(http://en:wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are-You a wikipedia _test.
8.Cheespodding: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 1970s.

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