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Internet Addiction A Growing Problem
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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Do you spend a lot of time reading blogs (or writing them)? Maybe you're spending too much time on the Internet. According to recent research from the Stanford University School of Medicine, 1 in 8 people can't keep their grimy hands off their keyboards for more than a couple days. Well, they didn't quite put it that way. But, here's what they're finding on our dependence on cyberspace.
"We often focus on how wonderful the Internet is -- how simple and efficient it can make things," said Elias Aboujaoude, the study's lead author, in a statement.
"But we need to consider the fact that it creates real problems for a subset of people."
1 Comments - Diet & Fitness Blog: Internet Addiction A Growing Problem
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said... - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:26:00 AM
That's a typical puritan way of seeing things, addictions everywhere!
Shop a bit too much? Shopaholic!
Watch too much TV? Teeveeholic!
Like too much food? Foodaholic!
Get too much sex? Sexaholic!
Ad infinitum...
Everything can become problematic if done to the extreme. Real addictions like those to alcohol and/or drugs gets trivialized by studies like this one. Of course someone who spends 48hrs online w/o doing anything else has a problem, but I don't see how someone who has a blog and spends time on it is a potential internet addict. It's the modern equivalent of pamphleteers...
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