LA Times Gets Web 2.0

May 27th, 2008

Paul Bradshaw is not a psychologist. He just plays one on the Internet.

business himself an amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, the U.K. blogger has identified common psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts as they remodel to the demands of new technologies.

all of a add up to them:
-- Comment guilt: Feelings of worthlessness and frustration that they don't comment more frequently on other peoples blogs.

-- warble rage: Extreme psychopathic episodes directed at microblogging post outages (the most acute box currently being studied: TechCrunchs Mike Arrington)

-- Twitterhoeia: The uncontrollable urge to share mundane experiences with Twitter followers (Arrington currently entrancing part in a case study)

-- Six degrees of split syndrome (also known as Robert Scoble multiple personality disorder): The trick that he or she is exactly joined friend removed from anyone else in the exactly and compulsively adds friends on popular networks

-- RSS reader Sisyphus complex: No concern how much time again is dead beat checking RSS reader, there are still 8,978 posts unread.

complete article

Comments are closed.

See also: