Here I am....once again with another blog to share with all of you...
Today i will be giving you all, a little vocabulary lesson....Now don't you worry, it's not anything like the English classes you used to have in school.
I was thinking what next to write in my blog and since i could not decide on a topic, i asked a friend for help. I texted my friend to suggest me few topics for my next blog. To my surprise, his reply came instantly with just 2 words in the SMS....'MOUSE POTATO'.... I smiled and thought why not??
So my dear friends, i will give u an insight on what exactly is a Mouse Potato...
To be frank, in today's world, almost everyone is a Mouse Potato! Yep, that's true....
WordWeb defines Mouse Potato as 'Someone who spends a lot of time using a computer (playing games, browsing the internet, etc.)'
Even I am a hard core Mouse Potato. I can spend almost endless hours infront of my Laptop doing absolutely useless and stupid things. Yet, somehow i just dont seem to get tired of it. :D
The phrase Mouse Potato first originated in 1993 when a writer, Alice Kahn coined it in an e-mail to the American Dialect Society.
Another such term that became a cliche is Deskfasting, which means 'having breakfast at one's work desk in the morning'.
Though Deskfasting is not that popular in India, you can sure see a lot of Mouse Potatoes lying around.
The Annual Staples National Small Business Survey revealed that around 62% of the small business owners in the US, found themselves transforming into Mouse Potatoes, with two-third of them working and eating at the same time, and one-third, Deskfasting, with an effort to maximize time.
So my dear friends if you wish to start a small business or want to be intrapreneurs, take care, you might be entering the luring world of binary codes. Don't get attached to the beautiful machines called PCs and Laptops, else, you might just end up being a Mouse Potato or maybe even Deskfasting.
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