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Title: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: vudu on November 03, 2006, 11:17:16 AM
Are You an Internet Addict?

No, you say?  Ha!  That's one of the telltale signs!
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Here's a list of common symptoms to watch out for:

1. Lying about how much time is spent online.
2. General decrease of physical activity and social life.
3. Neglecting obligations at home, work, or school to spend time online.
4. Spending too much money on computer equipment or Internet activities.
5. Feeling a constant desire to be online when they're away from the computer.
6. Going online to escape real world problems.
7. Disregarding the emotional or physical consequences of being in front of a computer all day.
8. Denial of the problem.
Anyone who claims they're not an Internet addict is an Internet addict.  Sucks to be you.
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: Pale on November 03, 2006, 12:00:51 PM
So we are left with one option...

Refusing to answer the question.
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: vudu on November 03, 2006, 12:48:48 PM
Oh no; I don't think so!

No contest might work for Haley Joel Osment, but not for you!
Title: RE:Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: Crimm on November 03, 2006, 03:39:51 PM
...but what if I think I'm an internet addict?
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: wandering on November 05, 2006, 03:25:33 AM
Fortunately for me, I don't have any friends, so I never really get the opportunity to deny anything or lie. Looks like I'm in the clear.
Title: RE:Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on November 06, 2006, 04:45:11 PM
Who wrote that list?

Sounds like a grandma or something
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: decoyman on November 06, 2006, 04:52:54 PM
Can't take quiz, too busy surfing.
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: KnowsNothing on November 06, 2006, 05:16:20 PM
I've got a lot in common with that list thingy there, but when I took the test it said I was merely an average internet user who, at times, stays on too long.

The whole thing's a load.

oh no is this denial ;___;
Title: RE:Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: mantidor on November 06, 2006, 07:24:48 PM
I am

I surf wikipedia to no end, Im active in more than one forum, I surf constantly imdb, I even post there! in the imdb boards! you can't go any lower maybe neogaf or myspace I don't even have a single first page, Opera saves the tabs you use and I keep around 10 open so when I first open the browser after work I check them all.





Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: 18 Days on November 06, 2006, 07:36:24 PM
I suffer from teh first 7 symptoms. I ccan't deny my addiction.
Title: RE:Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on November 06, 2006, 08:57:21 PM
I spend hours reading Wikipedia and something awful's debate and discussion forum for hours at a time sometimes...
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: Svevan on November 06, 2006, 09:05:20 PM
I scour the internet for references to myself in the vain hope that I will one day be a journalist-celebrity. When I'm not doing that, I'm working on PGC stuff. I get paid to do neither.
Title: RE:Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: Khushrenada on November 07, 2006, 06:54:44 PM
Thank you Vudu. You have opened my eyes to a problem I didn't even realize existed. I, like many other fellow addicts, saw that question and thought to myself, NO. But you have helped me see the light and realize that I have just been denying this problem. Thanks to you, I'm finally getting the help I need. Which is, of course, spending more time online to forget my problem. Now everyone will see more of me than ever before. Thank you Vudu for this wonderful public service.  
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: couchmonkey on November 08, 2006, 05:56:59 AM
NOOOOOOOOOO!! WHAT HAS VUDU DONE?

(I'm not an addict.  I used to be, that's how I know I'm not one now.  Srsly.)
Title: RE: Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: Bill Aurion on November 08, 2006, 11:55:13 AM
I'm a game site addict, but I can't help that I love you all so much!  
Title: RE:Who here is addicted to the Internet?
Post by: segagamer12 on November 11, 2006, 06:28:06 AM
Well I will say I spend a lot of time online, when not here either at my own site or on myspace, which all those peopel are peeps I knwo in real life not losers I met online excetr helen reddy I added her czu I love her song angie baby.

But I am not addicted cuz I went six months without internet and I was only on like three times a week at the tlibrary and only for an hour ata  time or till the kicked me off. And all I ever do is work on my own website, or sell stuff on ebay, or  pm myspace friends to gettogether cuz nobody has phones that wropk here cuz we live ina hole oin the ground in the middle of nowhere in nevada too clsoe to area 51 so all the radiiation kills our cell phones and junk.


So lik eno I am not an adict cant you tell.