Infosnacking is a term used to describe the online habits of the average internet user. It was chosen as Webster's New World College Dictionary Word of the Year in 2005.
Originally used to describe the online actions of employees during business hours that where not work-related (such as checking sports scores, personal email, chat rooms, online video), the term has evolved out of the workplace to describe not simply the actions of users, but the way with which users access information on the internet. It has now come to describe a manner of jumping from site to site or activity to activity, such has how a user might check current news headlines while waiting for a video to load, or how a user might jump from one article to other articles by following links as they appear in that article.
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