namesearch

To search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.

Verb

  1. To search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.
    • Ricky Gervais namesearches himself and that's the funniest thing he does - 2018 March 17, Ratio Hornblower (@OneStrawShort), Twitter:
    • You know Elon is namesearching himself in Slack and writing down names of people who make fun of him. - 2022 November 15, Adam Ellis (@adamtotscomix), Twitter:
    • Imagine being a gazillionaire and namesearching yourself on Twitter, how sad is that - 2022 November 29, Chaotina (@dankestofbread), Twitter:

    Hypernyms: egosurf

Origin

From name + search.

Forms

namesearches namesearching namesearched

Synonyms

kiboze