Are you a Wilf? Techie Without a Clue wants to know. It’s not a name – don’t answer by saying, ‘no, I’m a Pete, or Reg, or Sue,’ I’m being serious. You see YouGov have done a survey in the UK and found out something important.
It seems that computer ‘users’ – love that term; is it an addiction? – use as much as two whole days a month surfing in cyberspace for things they don’t need. And it’s been dubbed ‘what I looking for,’ hence ‘wilf.’
Wilfing is becoming a serious ‘habit’ – like a trip, so to speak. Most ‘wilf’ on shopping sites, buying nothing – not even remembering what in wilf they were looking at. But of course, I’m not surprised.
The computing revolution is said to have outed a new type of person, but I maintain the internet changes nothing but the means and speed of doing what we do anyway. And we do do this when we spend a day out ‘shopping.’
I also maintain that, like the new shopping centres, too much choice turns off the brain. What we need is less choice and more focus. Still never mind. I just hope that you lot wilf over in my direction.
© Anthony North, April 2007
A LITTLE EXTRA
We have a mania for self-help books. They tell you how to do this, or do that, and get over the other. But a thought: if we indulged in self-help, why do we need a book to help us?
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