Digg Users Find Site A Bit Too "Refreshing"
Rochester, MN--Doctors at the Mayo Clinic have identified a disorder in this month’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) primarily affecting users of the popular tech-news website digg.com.
Dubbed “Obsessitive Refreshetitus,” this disorder results from the continual refreshing of pages on digg.com that some users feel compelled to after submitting a story to the fledgling social-bookmarking site.
“I might refresh a story every thirty seconds or so until it gets a ‘digg’ or ends up being buried so far down in the queue that I can’t even find it,” said unemployed Network Technician Dusty Drysol from the relative comfort of his bedroom in his parent’s converted garage.
“I really thought that the story about the dog being sued by the RIAA would catch on, but so far it has been on the site for three weeks, and has only received two diggs. Still, I visit it every couple hours or so to see if anything has changed.”
Doctors fear that all of this constant refreshing will lead to eye strain, gastric distress, and eventually leave the user with an attention span the length of a nematode. “People just need to accept that once a story is submitted, it is totally out of their hands at that point,” said Head Surgeon Pete O’Repeet.
“Refreshing the story repeatedly might make you feel better, but it will not change your ultimate outcome in life. The only person who can do that is God.”
Dubbed “Obsessitive Refreshetitus,” this disorder results from the continual refreshing of pages on digg.com that some users feel compelled to after submitting a story to the fledgling social-bookmarking site.
“I might refresh a story every thirty seconds or so until it gets a ‘digg’ or ends up being buried so far down in the queue that I can’t even find it,” said unemployed Network Technician Dusty Drysol from the relative comfort of his bedroom in his parent’s converted garage.
“I really thought that the story about the dog being sued by the RIAA would catch on, but so far it has been on the site for three weeks, and has only received two diggs. Still, I visit it every couple hours or so to see if anything has changed.”
Doctors fear that all of this constant refreshing will lead to eye strain, gastric distress, and eventually leave the user with an attention span the length of a nematode. “People just need to accept that once a story is submitted, it is totally out of their hands at that point,” said Head Surgeon Pete O’Repeet.
“Refreshing the story repeatedly might make you feel better, but it will not change your ultimate outcome in life. The only person who can do that is God.”
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