Do I engage in Internet activities when my body is calling out for food, toilet, sleep? Yes! Do I stay on the Internet so long that I have to take a taxicab to work or I'd be late? Yes! Addicted - sounds like it. This is where many of my friends are. Do I work three jobs - yes (but I log on at work during off times) Maybe a definition of addiction is necessary.
Absolutely!! Now that I'm disabled don't get out much it is my 'window to the world.' I can do almost everything online and now, here on Gather, I feel like I've finally found a "home."
Last summer I worked at a camp with very little net access. It felt like I was going to die and even after two months of being there, I still tried to escape every minute I could in hopes of finding a few minutes of net access. Apparently, unlike cigarettes, the hardest part *isn't* those first few days. It was crazy, but what's even crazier, is that I decided to go back again this year. 9 weeks with less than an hour of net time a week. I'm cheating just a bit, though, and taking my laptop with me in hopes of being able to curb my appetite a bit by typing up emails and such ahead of time and then sending them while I'm online....and further achieving more while I'm actually connected.
So uh, yeah, like I said, some people would call it an addiction. For me, it's an integral part of my life. I moderate advice forums where I have so many friends (people I've known for going on 6 years now and have met in person).....I've moved every few years and keep in touch with family via email.....all of my bills, banking, businesses are taken care of online. I'm literally lost without it at times, and if it's an addiction, ok, but I don't plan on separating myself any time soon. If I 'have' to go without, then I can, but I just need a fair warning, lol. After all, I'm willing *choosing* to go work at a camp where I know I don't have much access so it can't be *that* bad, right? .....Right??
Yes, I am very much addicted to the Internet. When I'm away from my computer at home (or work) for extended periods of time, I begin to have withdrawal symptoms. I depend on the Internet for quite a lot. It is one way I meet people. Some of the people I socialize with offline are ones I met online. This is where I obtain a goodly amount of news, almost all of my personal mail (including from my roommate), and where I can obtain the music I like anytime I wish. Gather has intensified this addiction a little because I feel I need to be on it every day, including while I'm at work.
My husband says I am addicted. I have to admit that there are times when it is really hard not to cave into the calling of my computer. But you know what? I don't just like the internet so much as I love my computer. I don't have to have internet access as long as I have my computer to log onto everyday. I have been known to stay off of the computer for more than 24 hours though! If life calls on me to have to do other things that are just taking my time away from my pc, then that is what happens. But the moment I get my free time, I want on and I want on NOW! LOL
I have been a member of Blogaholics Anonymous for 2 years now...and I just can't stop! I come home on my lunch hour to get on the internet...Yeah I think I am beyond help!
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Well, maybe more than a little.
It is a great tool.
George Vreeland Hill
Do I stay on the Internet so long that I have to take a taxicab to work or I'd be late? Yes!
Addicted - sounds like it.
This is where many of my friends are.
Do I work three jobs - yes (but I log on at work during off times)
Maybe a definition of addiction is necessary.
Last summer I worked at a camp with very little net access. It felt like I was going to die and even after two months of being there, I still tried to escape every minute I could in hopes of finding a few minutes of net access. Apparently, unlike cigarettes, the hardest part *isn't* those first few days. It was crazy, but what's even crazier, is that I decided to go back again this year. 9 weeks with less than an hour of net time a week. I'm cheating just a bit, though, and taking my laptop with me in hopes of being able to curb my appetite a bit by typing up emails and such ahead of time and then sending them while I'm online....and further achieving more while I'm actually connected.
So uh, yeah, like I said, some people would call it an addiction. For me, it's an integral part of my life. I moderate advice forums where I have so many friends (people I've known for going on 6 years now and have met in person).....I've moved every few years and keep in touch with family via email.....all of my bills, banking, businesses are taken care of online. I'm literally lost without it at times, and if it's an addiction, ok, but I don't plan on separating myself any time soon. If I 'have' to go without, then I can, but I just need a fair warning, lol. After all, I'm willing *choosing* to go work at a camp where I know I don't have much access so it can't be *that* bad, right? .....Right??