Are You A Wikipediholic?
<p>PARIS: 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.</p>
<p>They include:</p>
<p>- EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.</p>
<p>- BLOG STREAKING: "Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody's sake would be best kept private."</p>
<p>- 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].</p>
<p>- GOOGLE-STALKING: Defined as "snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates."</p>
<p>- CYBERCHONDRIA: "A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer."</p>
<p>- PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met.</p>
<p>- WIKIPEDIHOLISM: Excessive devotion to contributing to the online
collaborative encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. (Wikipedia even has a page
where you can test whether you're an addict:<br/>
(<a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test</a>)).</p>
<p>- 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.</p>
