LA Times Gets Web 2.0
Paul Bradshaw is not a psychologist. He just plays one on the Internet.
Calling himself an amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, the U.K. blogger has identified common psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts as they adapt to the demands of new technologies.
Among them:
– Comment guilt: Feelings of worthlessness and frustration that they don’t comment more frequently on other peoples blogs.
– Twitter rage: Extreme psychopathic episodes directed at microblogging service outages (the most acute case currently being studied: TechCrunchs Mike Arrington)
– Twitterhoeia: The uncontrollable urge to share mundane experiences with Twitter followers (Arrington currently taking part in a case study)
– Six degrees of separation syndrome (also known as Robert Scoble multiple personality disorder): The delusion that he or she is just one friend removed from anyone else in the world and compulsively adds friends on social networks
– RSS reader Sisyphus complex: No matter how much time is spent checking RSS reader, there are still 8,978 posts unread.
See the rest here:
LA Times Gets Web 2.0
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