Are You A Datasexual?
Hah! Caught you! OK. There's homosexual. Meterosexual. Now, datasexual ? It's not what you think. It's obsessive self-trackers, according to Janet Fang at smartplanet.com. You know them. They're either posting their dinner photos, then checking compulsively to see who viewed them, or adding comments to someone else's post, and checking them every two minutes. Fang, who references IIIEE Spectrum for the information, writes, they're constantly using social media "not just to enhance self-knowledge but also to embellish self-presentation, especially on social networks." She notes that Big Think offered this description last year: "They are relentlessly digital, they obsessively record everything about their personal lives, and they think that data is sexy. In fact, the bigger the data, the sexier it becomes. Their lives — from a data perspective, at least — are perfectly groomed." That's another thing. I hate reading abou...