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Renowned Psychologist Caught in Self-Googling Scandal
Aug 24 2003 by Allen Voivod
ISP records obtained by DeadBrain reveal that renowned psychologist Dr. Morgan Fanberg has been "self-Googling" in what colleagues are calling an obsessive, narcissistic manner.
Self-Googling, for the uninitiated, refers to the practice of using one's name as a search term on the Google website. "Dr. Fanberg appears to have a deep-seated need to confirm his very existence," said Dr. Matthew Glasser, a licensed guidance counselor. "Self-Googling two and three times a day? It's an existential crisis of the most basic order."
Dr. Fanberg immediately went on the defensive. "It's important to know who's saying what about you out there. Are they saying good things? Bad things? Naughty things?" When asked to identify who "they" were, Fanberg replied, "My public! Ummm, the public. You know, anyone who might care enough to make a web page about me, or wonder about how I'm doing with the whole toenail fungus problem, that sort of thing."
"I'm deeply concerned," said Dr. Frederick Butler, a psychiatrist on the American Psychological Association's peer review board. "The man can't seem to get enough of himself. At convention mixers, he'd ask people to take pictures of himself, but insisted on being the only person in them. Or, he'd take photos of other doctors, but routinely keep their faces out of frame. Classic competitive narcissistic tendencies."
The discovery came when the Recording Industry Association of America subpoenaed Fanberg's web surfing records to search for evidence of illegal downloads of El DeBarge, Stryper, and Jed Perkins' Six-Man Barbershop Quartet.
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