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Are you a victim of the internet? I think I have a mild form of the addiction. They're even thinking of setting up special clinics in South Korea lol

Don't watch TV, sorry.

Too busy on the computer.

2008-03-28 16:43:09 by NR4L

I am a 23 year old student with depression and anxiety disorder. My question is is it normal to surf the internet for long periods of time? Whenever I intend to check my email or work on an assignment, I end up looking at websites for hours at a time and I barely notice that time has passed. I read news articles, blogs, wikipedia, yahoo answers, internet movie database, youtube, and just about everything else. Everytime I tell myself I am about to quit, I tell myself "just one more link." I don't know why I fill my head with all of this useless, random trivia (what were the oscar nominations in 2003, who were nancy drew ghost writers, the average age of marriage in the US vs other countries, famous left handed people, movies with talking animals, list of song titles that are also movies, etc) because I only forget it an hour later. I miss sleep & neglect responsibilities because of this. Does anyone have a sugestion of how to quit surfing w/o giving up my pc(I need it for school work).

You need to introduce other more interesting things into your life. Find something to do outside of the house so you wont be home to surf the net. I have had the same problem before. I now work so many hours that I can only surf a couple of hours a day. If you truely enjoy doing it then why stop? just because other people think its weird? It seems that your problem could be that your life is just too boring to keep your attention so you use the internet to escape to another reality. The only thing you can do is to make the rest of your life more interesting.

2006-07-19 17:16:39 by Vee

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It's the new year and resolution time again, and more specifically, it's break-your-resolution time again as well. And I already have.

I know this is a difficult question, and everyone's different blah blah blah. And I see the irony in asking how to beat internet addiction in an online forum. I just wanted any tips from people who have learnt to control the amount of time they spend on the net.

A little background and context. I'm naturally a tech geek. I'm also addicted to information and read many blogs regularly, constantly surf wikipedia, BBC news. I have god knows how many RSS feeds in my feed reader. And of course I waste even more time on Y!Answers and Y!360.

However, I can't just switch off my computer, or remove my broadband connection. I'm a PhD student and I need the connection and access to actually do my work (and I do have to do a lot of work at home).

Ideas?

Since you love the Net so much, I'm guessing you have multiple tabs open at once. Try to keep the number under 3 tabs. When you have work to do, don't do anything other than that until you have accomplished a substantial amount - no E-mail or Y! until you do some work. And if you find yourself migrating to Y! or BBC just take a deep breath and close your window.

2007-01-06 10:48:17 by the last ninja

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See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction#Criticisms

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061017/tc_nm/internet_addiction_dc

Hello. - In my opinion,there may be a slight addiction to the Internet among 5 to 80 year olds.

I do not believe age matters .. addiction is what it is.

Have a nice day. :)

2006-10-17 17:47:06 by Shades

I saw a report on the news that internet addiction is compared as having a substance abuse problem. Examples being that you will forgo eating and sleeping or working or taking care of household chores just to be on the internet.

who said this? don't believe them its not true! Please don't turn off my computer. are u addicted if you go for three days with no sleep and a thermos of coffee next to your desk.? No not I

2006-10-23 11:20:42 by 2h@n@