Information anxiety neurosis? Are you?

I heard this word in a Chinese TV program-“If you are the one” several weeks ago. It perfectly describes people like us who feel worried if someone else gets more information than we do. For example, if some of my friends start to use Facebook, I will feel they own more information than me, so I will apply for an account as soon as possible. I just think it’s an interesting word, so I use it as the title.

After I started my college life, I found a lot of people use twitter. Then, I registered an account, even though I seldom use it. I’m following some big companies like coke cola, Nike and my college. We also have mini blog in China which is really similar to twitter. I think it definitely stole twitter’s idea. I was sharing dishes that I cooked every day and some random thoughts and complains. Our Chinese twitter can share pictures and videos; I’m also following one of my classmate’s blog ：http://angelea-photoaday.blogspot.com/ . I love it because we both love taking pictures every day and sharing them with other people.

I wrote on my Chinese twitter: There are five kinds of people are using twitter. 1. The authors: who love sharing things with others 2. The stars: usually famous person, even a simple word will attract tons of comments in one second. 3. The advertisers: most of them are companies’ twitter 4. The retwitters: whoever loves retweeting. 5. The twitter-complexes: whoever always checks twitter. If they don’t check twitter for 5 mins, they will feel nervous.

I keep thinking why modern people have Information anxiety neurosis, and I have get the answer yet…