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Last week the blogosphere was abuzz with talk about the article that NYT published regarding the stress levels being seen in Tech bloggers (My views on this subject are here). At the same time Eric Rice posed an interesting theory last week, asking if social web early adopters have psychological disorders?

My initial reaction was like WTF? Is this guy trying to offend Tech Bloggers worldwide. I always thought Tech Bloggers are the people who are generally ahead of the curve in adopting the latest in technology. I was like why on earth is this guy calling out the early adopters to be suffering from Psychological disorders like ADHD and OCD?

I reread the whole post and just went through the saved passwords on my main Firefox install to see if what Eric was saying was indeed true. I was instantly shocked to see over 300 saved usernames and passwords and more than half of them were some new apps and services I signed up for and never used. Not to forget I use OpenID on many sites as well. I could easily say that all those saved passwords in there are for researching new posts on DailyApps, but to be honest I don’t really need hundreds of them over there.

For being the tech enthusiasts that we are, we always want to be the first person to try out the latest Web2.0 app on the block. We’ve developed serious problem with our attention whether it’s in the latest electronics or Web apps. Everyone wants to be ahead of the rest, and if that means signing up for every darn service on this planet, so be it!

Here are some questions that you should ask yourself. How many of you are holding out on a purchase of iPhone thinking that a 3G model is around the corner? How many of you would leave the social networks you are currently on, just because some internet celebrities are endorsing another social network?

I receive emails everyday wherein readers are asking me to review one app or the other. People are no longer happy with an existing app that does 99.99% of everything that they want it to do. But when a new app that is underpowered compared to the existing one comes along, people move along to the newer app without a second thought. Well in the end the result is digital garbage! We’ll have loads of apps and softwares that we will probably never use again lying on our disks being eaten by digital moth dying a slow death.

The current Web2.0 world is just not sustainable. We’ve a setup where apps are created everyday and discarded at an equal pace. This doesn’t bode well for us in the long run. I wonder what guys like Robert Scoble and Mike Arrington will say on this? You surely know the amount of crap that blogs like Techcrunch and Mashable churn out on a daily basis right?

What are your views on this subject? It surely deserves a debate in the blogosphere.