Holy crap! Can you believe this?
US shows signs of net addiction
14% of respondents said they cannot stay away from the internet
More than one in eight adults in the US show signs of being addicted to the internet, a study has shown.
“Addicts” showed signs of compulsive internet use, habitually checking e-mail, websites and chat rooms.More than 8% of the 2,513 respondents to the Stanford University phone survey said they hid their use from partners.
A typical addict is a single, white college-educated male in his 30s, who spends more than 30 hours a week on “non-essential” computer use, it found.
What a bunch of losers!
I know! I’ve read this story on like twenty different web sites.
People waste so much time.
Same here. Total B.S. I only match 4 out of of 5 points of the profile.
Agreed. How can you expect to be a winner if you are only willing to devote 30 hours a week to the internets.
Amateurs.
Only 30 hours? You’re right ThomasD, what a bunch of lightweights!
It’s past time we acknowledge that the shadow cast by all these white, college-educated men in their thirties, untamed by marriage, with all that free timeâ€â€a pasty mass rising so darkly over our societyâ€â€is the looming spectre of Malkmusofascism.
The bombing of boingboing.net starts in five minutes.
It’s really got to be bad for those losers who have BBS’s…wait, you call them ‘blogs’ now, right?…uh, wait, I’ve had one since…May? 1983? Using a Commodore 64, at 300 baud? Surely not..
Here’s a memory jogger for ya…
tw: 505 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
yeah, we got those too…
– So it cuts into the 45 hours of weekly TV of the past…. is that TEH point… Feh…what else they got…. I have to get back to blogging….
What is this thing you call “non-essential” computer use? It does not compute.
(One day people will have the internet wired directly into their brains. They’ll be connected 24/7. Loss of internet connection will be considered as disabling as paralysis or blindness. And they’ll read this sort of thing and boggle. It’ll be like those old articles you sometimes read where the writer insists trains can never go faster than 25 mph or all the air will be sucked out and the passengers will suffocate.)
Wow, you must live a very old neighborhood with an even older library, I’ve never “sometimes” or otherwise come across an article like that! Of course, being on the internets all the time, when would I find time?
Mark,
Please be kind to Angie. She gives me very timely advice about when to STFU.
…And we can all see how well that works Dan….(duck)
Yeah, I only got 4 out of 5.
And maybe I just define ‘essential’ differently!
Oh Dan, I didn’t intend my post to be unkind in any way! It’s just that the time frame when she’s reading about 25 MPH trains, I was reading things like, “Synthetic Men from Mars,” and dreaming of personal flying machines that laughed at gravity
But if my post did come across unkindly, I apologize.
Wow, you must live a very old neighborhood with an even older library…
Careful, sonny, or I’ll bop you over the head with my cane. Now where did I put my teeth?
…And we can all see how well that works Dan….
Yeah, that’s not really that great a recommendation.
On the other side of the sundial, last month a maglev train crashed in Germany, killing 23 souls. The train was capable of doing 280 mph, but was ‘only’ doing 125 when it hit a wagon…
But I would ride one, if it had wireless connectivity…
What is this ““non-essential†computer use” of which you speak?
Oh, wait, Angie already played that game.
How is surfing for pron “non-essential” computer use?
I’m reading about this story everywhere. It’s mocking me. Whoa. Maybe I am addicted.