touch-screen syndrome 

When someone has been using a tablet, ipad, and or any other sort of touch-screen, they get so used to using one and having a screen respond to their touch, they will go to any computer trying to touch it, and then usually spend a minute or two trying to find out why its "broken".

Guy#1: Dude, can i see your computer?
Guy#2: Yeah sure, just dont break it.
Guy#1: Hey, whats wrong with your screen? Did it break?
Guy#2: What are you going on about? its perfectly fine!
Guy#1: It won't respond to my touch! it must be broken.
Guy#2: Its not broken you helpless git, it isn't a touch- screen!
Guy#1: Oh! That explains it....
Guy#2: Dude! You must have touch-screen syndrome!

touch-screen syndrome by 3Quantum3 February 2, 2012

Blue Screen Syndrome 

Traumatic case of Windows users who get computer crashes every hour, resulting in the horrors of the blue screen.

If you are a Windows user, like myself, you will experience the traumas of the Blue Screen System every so often.

Harry got Blue Screen Syndrome and quit his job as a programmer.

Blue Screen Syndrome by Bastardized Bottomburp May 3, 2003

Broken Screen Syndrome 

When your computer is so retarted you break its screen

Ah damn it my computer has broken screen syndrome

Broken Screen Syndrome by penguinlover399 April 4, 2022

Second Screen Syndrome 

When you forget to bypass commercials on your Tivo because your on your second device

Doh! I missed bypassing the commercial. Must be suffering from second screen syndrome.

Second Screen Syndrome by AnnoyedGymUser July 19, 2014

Empty Screen Syndrome 

The anxious paralysis that strikes when a student or professional stares at a blank screen, unsure how to begin a task—especially when AI tools are available but ethical use is unclear. Often triggered by perfectionism, decision fatigue, or fear of misusing technology.

He stared at the Canvas assignment page for 20 minutes, then Googled ‘how to start a paper.’ Classic Empty Screen Syndrome.

Empty Screen Syndrome by Briton Phillip October 1, 2025

Screen-er Syndrome 

When a person(s) stare(s) at a screen no matter what is on it.

John: Hey Mike what are you watching?
Mike: Little House in the Prairie.
John: I didn't know you like Little House!
Mike: I don't. I just caught a case of Screen-er Syndrome.

Screen-er Syndrome by Sakeeya July 5, 2012

Screen Overload Syndrome (SOS)

The modern hell of having five devices nuke your brain at once. You’re on Zoom (eye strain), phone dings (cognitive fragmentation), LED lights flicker (subconscious migraine), and Wi-Fi cooks your skull. Result: you feel hungover without drinking, wake up at 3 AM wired, and get phantom face pain. Doctors say “anxiety.” You know it’s SOS. Cure? Throw your router in a lake and sit in a dark cave for 72 hours.

Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)

When your eyeballs file for divorce after 10 hours of Excel. You blink 66% less, so your corneas feel like sandpaper. Bonus: your lens muscles freeze up, so now you can’t focus on a road sign 20 feet away. Congrats, you’ve given yourself fake old-man eyes before age 30. Artificial tears help. Throwing your laptop into traffic helps more.

The Flicker Factor

Your monitor and office LEDs strobe hundreds of times per second—too fast to see, but your ancient lizard brain notices. That low-key headache? The jaw clenching? The weird nausea when you scroll? That’s the Flicker Factor. It’s like a disco seizure for your trigeminal nerve. Disable PWM dimming or switch to incandescent bulbs, or accept your fate as a twitchy, blinking mess.

Screen Overload Syndrome (SOS) Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS)

The “is it real?” syndrome where your body throws a tantrum near routers, cell towers, and 5G nodes. Symptoms: tinnitus, heart palpitations, brain fog, and a crawling sensation on your skin. Skeptics say it’s placebo. Believers point to voltage-gated calcium channels. Either way, the guy sleeping in a copper-lined Faraday tent isn’t sleeping worse than you are.

Digital Tremor

That fine, fast shake in your thumb and index finger when you reach for a mouse or hover over a phone screen. Not Parkinson’s—just your median nerve throwing a strike after 40,000 swipes. Look closely: your hand does a tiny vibration right before contact. Gamers call it “micro-spasm.” Physios call it “repetitive strain meets sympathetic overload.” You call it “time to put the phone down.”

Screen Overload Syndrome (SOS) by Abzugal April 8, 2026