Word of The Day: Techneurotic
11.09.07 by
shane
tech·neu·ro·tic [tek-no-raw-tik]
adjective
- A blogging disorder in which feelings of ranking anxiety, obsessive “do they like me?” thoughts, compulsive stats checking and even physical complaints in various degrees and patterns dominate the personality.
- Compulsive gadget buying behavior fueled by the impossible ideal that you can own a piece of technology that is not already obsolete.
- An obsessive character trait that drives most avant guard technological inventions such as the robot roach and the Moller Sky car
Use: “A rash of techneurotic behavior assaulted the blog community during the Great Subscriber Crash of 07”
Shane,
In an act of creepy levels of psychic-ness, you’ve posted this just in time. Feedburner went down again overnight – down by 40% on my end.
This just goes to confirm my theory that you, in fact, run the internet and are trying to engage in a massive publicity stunt.
Loved the word, by the way.
*guiltily raised hand upon reading #2*
@Naomi – I only wish I could pull off something that cool!
@Susan – I feel your guilt, for the first time. I don’t usually care, but suddenly I want to “gift” my iPhone to Julie for Christmas and get the newest shiny one I KNOW they will release at the January conference so that I can have GPS and all the other cool features it will have.
I am…
I’ve tried the tablets but they didn’t work.
Is there an ointment or maybe an incantation?
Maybe I could “Twitter” I got it real bad
Damn, no ointment but I heard they have a brand new medical device that extracts a rare brand of snake oil – available to you for 19.99 in three easy payments.
@Lindsay: incantation… very funny. I’m thinking more of less a 12 step group could help out… except the problem is if you put a bunch of bloggers in a room with internet access they will inevitably start a blog about it. Heck, even when I’m without internet access I’m writing notes on my iPhone. Dammit I’ve got it too…
@shane: I need to borrow your snake oil again.