Socialolism
I discovered new disease… No, no disease is very strong word… Say, i discovered some kind of addiction and that for sure. I named it Socialolism
Definition
Socialolism is a strong addiction to Internet applications of social nature. Malignant versions of Socialolism arise just in that times when the affected person has many boring things to do (e.g. Work), even when that things are important.
Common Symptoms
There are some common Symptoms of Socialolism, knowing them will help you to identify the problem.
- Strong desire to open browser and check messages in some Social network during a small pause in Work (e.g. build or deployment process).
- Lingering and strong desire to open own blog or site and look for new comments.
- Worst: Desire is still there when there are no new comments
- Worstiest: Desire is still there, even there are newer been some comment on this site before.
- Watching also Youtube videos, that are related to video you actually receives form your colleague.
- Writing new post in your blog during work time.
- Updating your profile in Social-Network-Site instead of doing important homework.
- Checking every digg.com like site on new votes for stories committed by concerned person.
- Opening browser (for very very last time) just before start of durable and boring business.
- Reading Wikipedia more than intentionally intended.
- More than onece a day check of visitor statistic on own sites.
Known places of danger on the Internet
Every addiction has some objects that povoke concerned people. The places where socialolists (people afflicted with socialolism) try to satisfy their addiction are well known. That are blogs (especially own ), Forums, Classmate and Co-Worker networks, Youtube like sites and the whole palette of web2.0 sites like digg.com wich provide social components.
Demarcation of Concepts
Socialolism is not so bad like internetmania which is considered as disease. No, it rather bad consuetude or addiction. It should also not be mistaken for egosurfing, wikipediholism or even photo-lurking. Sure this can have relation, but these sings are real strange. Against them socialism should know nearly every modern Internet user i think. Such statistic bases of cause on my personal notice 
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Nevertheless Socialolism must be very close to problems like luck of concentration, idleness and maybe that’s the point!
How to cure
I’m not sure. Don’t connect to Internet? Sure this helps, but it is not pro rata. Just try to do such thing that are more interesting than Social sites? It’s often impossible. Hope to provide you some exercises against socialolism in the future.
P.S. Please notice that article has also ironical site.
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Comments
[...] But now enjoy the calender! but be careful, it should not lead to an addiction like socialolism. [...]
Thank you for comment James, sure what you described is a kind of Internet addiction. Checking photos in mails and playing poker maybe also covered by my definition of socialism. But first it covers hanging on social sites like digg. com, facebook, myspace, flickr and so on… Do you?
[...] is quite cool! My notice on new Internet addiction – socialolism has become some popularity in Russian Internet but with different name. They call it Socialomania [...]
SOCIALOLISM, is a very good description of what goes on when you supposed to be working and your find yourslef playing on internet casionos, playiing games , and studying certain pictures your received in your email …
Not connecting to the internet is not the answer, (need it for work) who know the root cause mabee beein on computer to long?
JAMES