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US full of Internet addicts: study (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061017/tc_afp/afplifestyleinternet_061017180234)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics, an unprecedented study released suggested.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Silicon Valley said their telephone survey indicated more than one of every eight US residents showed at least one sign of "problematic Internet use."

The findings backed those of previous, less rigorous studies, according to Stanford.

Most disturbing was the discovery that some people hid their Internet surfing, or went online to cure foul moods in ways that mirrored alcoholics using booze, according to the study's lead author, Elias Aboujaoude.

"In a sense, they're using the Internet to self-medicate," Aboujaoude said. "And obviously something is wrong when people go out of their way to hide their Internet activity."

According to preliminary research, the typical Internet addict was a single, college-educated, white male in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential computer use.

Well are we?

No. I could stay away for 10 hours if I have to. Only because work makes me.......:(

No. I quit cold turkey on a nightly basis.

F_ing DUHHH!!!! :D

F_ing DUHHH!!!! :D
+1

Me addicted? Nah...I live in a place called Denial. I'm addicted to cycling. And at various times...addicted to Bike Forums. Hmmm...Maybe that's why I'm always broke. Too much money spent on bike stuff.

Me addicted? well...maybe....OH GOD!!!......

What is this "non-essential computer use"? ;)

yes!

It it weren't for cycling I'd have absolutely no use for my PC.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=237324

...pretty much sums it up.

30 hours of porn a week??? :eek: :p

I stopped posting for a week and a half a month ago. I can make the decision to stop, and not think twice about coming back(for a week or so :) ).

Not addicted...yes I am....no I'm not.....yes I am....no....yes...no...yesn..ye..n..y...Oh crud!http://www.fullhyd.com/images/smileys/coming_out_of_gloom.gifhttp://www.fullhyd.com/images/smileys/coming_out_of_gloom.gif

I'm a junkie, but I embraced it and all is well.

So if you do something a lot you are addicted? I guess I am addicted to the internet. I'm also addicted to breathing, working, driving, riding, waiting on my kids hand and foot and many other fun filled activities. Sign me up for the nearest Internet Anonymous meeting. (hopefully they have an online meeting somewhere :p )

I was gonna start an Internet Anonymous group but then I got frustrated at something so I decided to browse the web and bury my fears.

:lol:

Hey don't laugh at me! Ummm, I'll be right back. . . I uhhh. . . have to go check eBay.

No wait! I'm not using the internet at all! Yeah, that's the ticket. . . . I don't use the internet! Nope!

teh intraweb?? What's dat?

Teh intarw3b is l33t!!!

Errr, I mean, I . . . um. . . . don't know.

Rehab, baby, rehab!

rehab is for quitters...

The Internet is not addictive. I should know. I've been using this thing for almost 20 years. ;)

Yeah I mean, I've like quit like. . . . umm, three times a week.

zactly. :D

Plus, what's wrong with attics?

http://www.eastman.org/taschen/m198111980005.jpg

Hi my name is Stacey, I'm an addict. Internet, coffee, cigarettes and weed. I hate it when life interupts my addictions. I used to be a chronic ***********, but found I couldn't surf the itnernet with one hand... something had to go!

:lol:

I used to be a chronic ***********, but found I couldn't surf the itnernet with one hand... something had to go!

Then you have not ascended...
n3wb.

Hi my name is Stacey, I'm an addict. Internet, coffee, cigarettes and weed. I hate it when life interupts my addictions. I used to be a chronic ***********, but found I couldn't surf the itnernet with one hand... something had to go!

what had to go? It's not like you're doing so well with two hands here on the 'itnernet' my fine, furry, flea-infested friend. :D

What you talking about, I use the same flea collar as your wife. :eek: :lol:

I was gonna start an Internet Anonymous group but then I got frustrated at something so I decided to browse the web and bury my fears.

I vote we start an Internet Unanimous group.

Weekly meetings at the Internet Cafe. Valet parking will be provided for bicycles.

Hi my name is Stacey, I'm an addict. Internet, coffee, cigarettes and weed. I hate it when life interupts my addictions. I used to be a chronic ***********, but found I couldn't surf the itnernet with one hand... something had to go!


:roflmao:

is there a 12 step program for BF and bicycling?

What you talking about, I use the same flea collar as your wife. :eek: :lol:

It never worked for any of them either! :eek:

Had to call in a lifeline for that one? You were too dayum slow. :p

If you have any pleasurable pursuits, you're addicted by definition.

You're pursuing pleasure.

Had to call in a lifeline for that one? You were too dayum slow. :p

I thought you liked me slow. :(

Your train derailed at you thinking I like you at all. Phhhhhhttttt! :roflmao:

Your train derailed at you thinking I like you at all. Phhhhhhttttt! :roflmao:

You know you love me. Even I love me...cept when I don't. I know you sit there pining for me all day long, thinking of all the things you'd like to do to me, a long walk in the woods, a gentle embrace as you handcuff me, tying me to a stake and skinning me alive, leaving whats left for the coyotes. :love:

leaving whats left for the coyotes

What makes you think they'd like you any more than the rodent does?

What makes you think they'd like you any more than the rodent does?

Because I draw tons of sheep bawling 'daaaaaaaaaaaaddddd' :p

is there a 12 step program for BF and bicycling?
Yes there is, you keep no more than 12 steps between the computer and the bike!:D

put the computer on the bike and have the best of both worlds

I'm not addicted, I'm unemployed and horribly bored.

I have a reading/writing addiction, and the bookstore not only operates at regular hours, but they frown on people who live there and only occasionaly buy anything.

Our libraries suck in Atlanta, but they keep regular hours anyway. My brief two semesters at Oglethorpe found me haunting the library and computer lab...so you can find me at a computer or with a book under my nose 16-18 hrs. of the day every day.

I'm exaggerating. I think.