Photolurking, blog streaking and cheesepodding: The new Internet addictions

AFP/Yahoo ^ | Tue Dec 19, 1:31 PM ET

[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.

[martin_fierro]

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[JRios1968]

Do you like cheese?

[Mr. Blonde]

Definitely some songs in my iTunes library I'm a little ashamed of.

[tubebender]

I agree with you...it is a slow night...

[Fierce Allegiance]

Oh, gawd, I'm a cheesepodder.

[A_perfect_lady]

- EGO-SURFING:

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.

[Mr. Blonde]

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.

[Slings and Arrows]

That reminds me, I haven't Googled myself lately...

[quantim]

Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s.

"Oh, gawd, I'm a cheesepodder."

Air Supply got the best of you once or twice, lol?

[meowmeow]

CYBERCHONDRIA:

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!

[abb]

Well, all I can say is it sounds like Muskrat Love to me...

[SoothingDave]

Does "The Pina Colada Song" count?

[Hatteras]

"- 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."

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

[Jotmo]

HEY, How'd those Bee Gee's songs get on my play list?!!!

It's now an official condition. Oh lord, I need help.

Do I qualify for ADA benefits?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Uh, yeah, thet's gota be the defining song!

(I do have it, btw. Need the MP3? )

[socal_parrot]

FEEEEELINGS...

Nothing more than....

FEEEEELINGS...

[SoothingDave]

I've had it for years. Also, "Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield and the Human League doing "Don't You Want Me."

[Fierce Allegiance]

How about Aldo Nova "Fantasy"? That song KICKS!

[Tijeras_Slim]

- 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.

[SoothingDave]

I've only got "Monkey on Your Back" from them. I don't think that's "cheese." "99 Luftballoons" is cheese. "Safety Dance" is cheese.

[martin_fierro]

WTFD Vocabu-Ping.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Yes, that's the cheez-whiz of cheez!

[CholeraJoe]

"At the Copa, Copacabana
The hottest spot north of Havana."

[xsmommy]

these sound dirty.... ; )

[xsmommy]

sounds like you two cheesepods need to get a room and listen to your cheese in solitude! ; )

[xsmommy]

how about I LIKE KITES?

[SoothingDave]

Never heard of it.

[martin_fierro]

Wildflower
Skylark

She's faced the hardest times
you could imagine
and many times her eyes fought back the tears
and when her youthful world
was about to fall in
each time her slender shoulders
bore the weight of all her fears
and a sorrow no one hears
still rings in midnight silence,
in her ears

Let her cry, for she's a lady
let her dream, for she's a child
let the rain fall down upon her
She's a free and gentle flower,
growing wild

and if by chance I should hold her
let me hold her for a time
but if allowed just one possession
I would pick her from the garden,
to be mine

Be careful how you touch her,
for she'll awaken
and sleep's the only freedom that she knows
and when you walk into her eyes,
you won't believe
the way she's always paying
for a debt she never owes
and a silent wind still blows
that only she can hear and so she goes

Let her cry, for she's a lady
let her dream, for she's a child

let the rain fall down upon her
She's a free and gentle flower,
growing wild

[SoothingDave]

"She ran calling 'Wiiiiiiiiildfire!'"

[DenverGal]

Thanks for the info! I certainly do some of these..but I'm careful..I think

[The SISU kid]

That reminds me, I haven't Googled myself lately...

Don't get any on you.....

8^)

[abb]

Next thing I suppose they're gonna make fun of my Air Supply music I got stored on my hard drive...

GOOD STUFF!!

[Fierce Allegiance]

For the last remaining person on earth who hasn't seen me post this yet

[Fierce Allegiance]

"Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life."

[The SISU kid]

"Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life."

No that damn song will be stuck in my head for the remainder of the day!!!!!

[Fierce Allegiance]

MUahahahahaha!

[nomorelurker]

Is constantly looking up ABBA on Youtube the same as Cheesepodding or does an Ipod have to be involved. I guess I might be a Cheesetuber?

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'd have to say you are amongst the group! Eeeegads!

[Slings and Arrows]

Cheese forever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4QIIUBw65I

[MoochPooch]

They left out "FReeping" (no explanation needed).

[Fierce Allegiance]

LOL, I like that. Schlock, but I like it.

[murdoog]

My name is Michael,
I got a Nickel,
I got a nickel shiny and new,
I'm going to buy me all kinds of candy,
That's what I'm gonna do!

[Slings and Arrows]

Me too. And I'm glad they play better than they dress.

[A_perfect_lady]

"She ran calling 'Wiiiiiiiiildfire!'"

Billy, don't be a hero...

[A_perfect_lady]

Oh, shoot, someone beat me to it. Okay, top this, baby:

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, but the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach...

[Velveeta]

And just what in the heck is wrong with songs from the 70s???

Hmmmm?

I LOVE songs from the 70s.
Does that make me a cheesepo....never mind.

[KoRn]

I'm afflicted by more than one of these. I'm going to hit the net hard tonight searching for symptoms and cures!

[Slings and Arrows]

I am ignoring your comment with dignity.

Poopy-head.

[ADemocratNoMore]

> EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.

50 posts so far and no one has mentioned James "Kibo" Parry?. You all must be a bunch of young whippersnappers here, so let me tell you a story...

Back in the early 90's, when the World Wide Web was a wee infant must of us dialed into these things called a BBS and a few adventurous souls used their 300 Baud modems (the nice thing about 300 Baud being that you could read the text as it scrolled by in real time it was that slow), and our Term programs to log into Usenet (you may have heard of it, along with those black plastic waffles called "records"). There was this guy who called himself "Kibo" who used to GREP the entire content posted each day looking for his moniker, and then replying to each post he was mentioned in. What is now known as ego-surfing, was, back in the day, called Kibology. Google "Kibo" & Happynet, or Kibo & White House to learn more about this Internet character. For all I know, he'll find out about this post, too.

You want cheese in your stocking for Christmas?. I've got barking dogs, singing frogs, howling cats & tuned rubber bands along with Alvin & the chipmunks, all doing Christmas carols. It can.t get much more cheesier than that, can it?.