http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4327258.stm
Now the chinese are treating their "internet addicts" , so what about the 2chanellers and 4chanellers.
Communism cannot afford fulltime NEETs.
According to an article in a polish magazine my mother read, if anyone spends more then 1.5 hours on the net a day then they are addicted to it.
Funny, expecially since the exact same article stated 7 hours is the requirement to being addicted to TV.
Where's the fairness in that?
Basically the old cannot comprehand the new. Thus they consider it evil and insist that it be controlled or shunned upon at the very least.
> Basically the old cannot comprehand the new. Thus they consider it evil and insist that it be controlled or shunned upon at the very least.
QFT. This is true for so many different things.
I'm pretty hooked on the internet. It went down one day and I pretty much stared at the ceiling for two days.
CAN'T... STOP... POSTING
moer liek porn addiction amirite?
>>3 Its that sort of shit articles that get me so pissed with the media that can't fully understand internet culture.
When I am at home, I spend most of my time on the computer (whether be it for work, games or chat). I mean WHAT else is there to do at home other than
And its not like I spend my time on the net just idling and reading shit. I am actually sociallizing with friends who are online, playing games with the populace and coding.
Then you get clueless generations like my dad's generation who can't understand why you spend so much time online.
>>6
Well, that obviously goes for you, too.
It is delicious porn. I must save it.
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In my class, the average usage of computers per day was around 6 hours. The top was 12 hours. PER DAY. Shocking.
Hm... I probably put in 12 hours per day.
>>12
You're insane.
>>11
well let's see.
Yesterday:14H(thats 1h to eat etc)
Today:9+H(thats 1h to eat)
"As kids log more than six hours a day of screen time, parents worry their social skills are withering. The kids say, LOL!"
"Katherine Keliher, 9, of Lakeville, Minn., could sleep an extra hour every weekday morning if she wanted to. But she would rather get up early, sit down at her computer and spend that time trading instant messages with her best friends, five girls she will soon see at school."
"Her mother, Judy Keliher, says she isn't looking to deprive Katherine of her messaging access. "For fourth-graders this is critical," she said, understanding that video games, cell phones, iPods and other high-tech gear are just part of growing up in a digital world."
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5909355.html
>>15
lol internet?
>> 15
While I'm not 9 years old, I personally do deprive myself of sleep inorder to stay online.
Is that wrong? nah... I work my butt off all day so I see the net as a way to socialize and entertain myself without further straining my body.
I get my sleeping hours back during my days off =P
Isn't addiction more defined by an inability to stop, rather than how much you do it? FTW?
>>18
I think you need a little bit of both.
>>19
Are you offering? I could use a bit more of both too, while you're at it.
>>18
Good point. I think another indication is when it interferes with other things to a significant degree - i.e. you get NO sleep because you're online all the time, or your marriage falls apart because you're busy constantly reloading ebay to see if you've been outbid on some piece of crap you don't really need...
It's not an addiction until it really starts adversly affecting you.
Right, but you probably won't notice when that happens.
ad·dic·tion (-dkshn)
n.
Habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one's voluntary control.>>24 cuts through the BS.