Cyberflaneur refers to a person who surfs the web with no purpose beyond curiosity and inquisitiveness¹.

 

Cyberflaneur指那些没有特定的目标，只是出于好奇和探究心理在网络上闲逛的人，我们称为“网络闲逛族”。

 

Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information that they can access at all times of day or night.

 

网络闲逛族被网络上现有的海量信息所吸引，无论白天黑夜，他们可以随时获取这些信息。

 

The word flaneur, a saunterer or "man about town" comes from the French flâner, "to saunter idly", and first appeared in English around 1854. A cyberflaneur is also known as a virtual flaneur, a term that also dates to 1997. (Source: Word Spy)

 

Flaneur一词来源于法语flâner，指“闲逛”或“闲逛的人”，在1854年左右成为英语词汇首次出现。Cyberflaneur（网络闲逛族）也被称为virtual flaneur，该词早在1997年时就开始使用了。

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