Most of the people that come across this blog would test positive with Early Adopter Syndrome. (This little hut is probably only known to the people in Linkville and the followers on Friendfeed, its not LAX). Most people try to whittle down logins and passwords down to a handful, yet we keep signing our information away to tons of fly by night establishments that we hope have good intentions.

We deprive ourselves of sleep for days on end, just to catch that last bit of news about something that will not matter to us one way or the other next week. Is the taste of truly breaking in a service that delicious? Why is it that we rush to test things that are obviously still broken, and have to scramble for solutions to a product that did not matter mere moments before?

Other people think we are crazy, but we are tired of signing up for something and not being able to use the name we want. We are sick of a product being out which has had no improvements and is generally useless, but people cling to it because they signed up for it eons ago (unless its Twitter).

Being an early adopter is a (mostly) free way to have new stuff all the time, and that is tough to argue with. Random people we will never ever meet think that stupid video we favorited is fantastic and can laugh with us. There are not bully groups on the services that want to bring us down because we do not know them personally.

And its just plain fun.

Early adopter syndrome: is it an ailment, or a byproduct of natural selection?