英文中把那些成天賴在沙發上看電視、不愛動彈的人叫做couch potato。自從有了網路以後，有相當一部分人已經放棄了couch potato的身份，轉而加入了desk potato的行列。
Desk potatois someone who sits at a desk all day long but gets little to nothing done -- usually because of websurfing or playing computer games. The term is derived from couch potato.
Desk potato（譯為“桌邊神遊族”）指整天坐在書桌邊，卻不見有任何事情完成的人，通常都是因為他們成天都在上網閒逛或玩遊戲。Desk potato這個說法來源於couch potato（電視迷、成天坐在沙發上無所事事的人）。
For example:
Jim has become a real desk potato. Between Mahjong and Minesweeper he manages to squeeze in a few hours on MySpace, and then he plays RPG's(Role-playing game) 'til midnight.
吉姆已經成了不折不扣的“桌邊神遊族”。除了玩麻將和踩地雷遊戲，他還會抽出幾小時上MySpace，然後就一直玩角色扮演遊戲到半夜。