Q: Are you addicted to the internet?
Submitted By: dougmwne, 159 days, 2 hours, 28 minutes ago
I use the internet to almost masochistically waste my time. most of my surfing is spent on news bloggs such as digg and slashdot reading items of little relavance to me. case in point, after spring break i checked the slashdot backlogs for all the stories i had missed, and no more than 2 in 7 days qualified as real technology news with real long term implications. video games are even worse, a new game can easily steal hours from me that i'll never get back. some days i just want to punt my computer out the window. Am I alone in my battle against the box?
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i think so
Submitted By: gorygirl ( 158 days, 7 hours, 23 minutes ago )
i dont know really i think ive been sucked into the internet actually. im in the matrix...i know kung fu...
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hmm
Submitted By: mauswe ( 158 days, 5 hours, 1 minute ago )
I don't feel like i want to throw my comp away but i have to say im totally addicted. Imagin a comp without internet man. Its ******* madness. when i moved in to my new apartment me and my friend had to wait for 2 weeks to get our connection set up and all we did was trying to get acces to open wifi connections that our neighbours had set up! HATE comps without internet on them... You end up spending time in paint...Or even worse, doing somethin in real life HAHA.
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Perhaps, but it is not a bad thing
Submitted By: dev ( 158 days, 2 hours, 21 minutes ago )
I use the internet for many things (news, entertainment, radio, communications). While I spend a lot of time using the internet, it is usually for everyday things.
Instead of watching lots of comercial in between the news on the television, I read on news on news.google.com, digg.com, slashdot.org, and several other sites instantly. Instead of listening to a reporter's 40 second summary, I can read the full story, from multiple view points. With the internet, I learn more news than I would if I had watched the TV.
As for communication and the internet, I can email and IM many friends, co-workers, and relatives. And I can communicate more effectively through writing. I can VOIP other's, which take place of phones. The internet effectively replaced snail mail and is replacing the telephone system (or at least partly). Also I go on IRC and into whatever channel I what to talk about with whoever. Forums are also a great place for giving and recieving help on topics.
As for entertainment and radio, I can download from itunes (or limewire - but I won't go there). I can listen to internet radio stations such as those listed on shoutcast.com. There is a much wider variety of internet radio stations than there are normal radio stations. I still listen to several normal radio stations when in the car, but when at home I listen to internet radio that is about the topics I am interested about. I can download movies (legally - if I wanted to pay 40 bucks a dvd) and watch them on my computer. My laptop screen has a bigger screen and a higher resolution than my TV, so it only makes sense to watch movies on my computer.
In summary, yes I am addicted to the internet. But the internet is not some drug that I could not stop. It has simply replaced 80% of the things I do because the internet does things faster and better in most cases. Rather than the internet being something you have to depend on, it is just an alternative to many, many things people do everyday.
Submitted By: dev