Internet Addiction By Any Other Name

My desire for knowledge doesn't make me bleed in the way it used to, but if the only thing keeping my attention on the blade is the lack of a waterproof internet device I think I may soon have to grow a beard. The problem with beards is that I have a very short memory for how I look with one - my thought process goes something like this: George Best looks good with a beard, maybe I'd look good with a beard, I'll grow a beard, oh I just look like a ginger Bill Oddie.

As an aside, I have a similar problem with orange juice and rice krispies: I like rice krispies, I like orange juice, I wonder if orange juice instead of milk would work, no it doesn't. Those are the only two though, I usually have a good ratio of learning from my mistakes - never will I watch an episode of Two Pints... again.

Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent for The Guardian, says it doesn't matter, that it's just words: "we rarely talk about people being "book addicts" - we say "book worms". He implies that it's the suspicion of the internet rather than the amount of time, that is causing people to talk about it being a problem.

And I think he's right. If I was getting my information from books I'd just be a voracious reader. If you watch a lot of films you're a "buff", a lot of plays you're cultured. Maybe we just need a better word for "internet buffs" - and preferably something that doesn't make any play on The Matrix, or the "web", highways super or otherwise, surfing, or cyber-anything.

Let's start here, we could get it in the next OED...