I Am Not An Internet Addict (Just)
Writing today’s Times, Rosemary Behan writes:
“I think I’m an internet addict. Each morning I wake up with something really important to do - like writing a book - and find myself checking my e-mail, trawling news websites, following random links, reading the articles, reading the comments, running a few words through Google . . . and then going back and checking my e-mail again.”
And it is scarily like what I do. There is so much on the internet that is becomes a loop. By the time I get to the end of the things I do online, it’s about time to start back at the beginning again! Again, and again, and again! The internet has become so full, with so much to do, from forums to Facebook, from email to MSN, and of course blogs, that it is impossible to ever reach ‘the end’. It is just an eternal loop from link to link to link - and back again.
But the internet is still just a tool. It has yet to take on a true life of it’s own, and I still use it, not it me. I’m not addicted, in the sense that I don’t get withdrawal symptoms or don’t go out because I want to stay online. However, just whilst writing this post, I have checked a forum, facebook, and two email accounts. The problem is that the internet has become such a necessary feature of modern life for communication and relaxation, that we are dragged inexorably down into it, getting more and more entangled within it.
Whilst I am not an internet addict, the resemblance is far too close for comfort.
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Yeah, I’m as terror this way. I also go round tagging people, like I’ve just done with you on my site now. Sorry!
Yes, she could be my double, wait till she starts blogging. I have yet to explore Facebook.
I definitely fall into the eternal loop crowd. I just go round and round and round… I think it was easier before I got my blog. Look I’m so addicted that I’m commenting on a blog entry on addiction. Damn it!