Do you suffer from 'Information Addiction'?
 

Pretty sure most people who are messageboard junkies are.


"Information addiction is a condition whereby the diagnosed is addicted to the hit of pleasure and stimulation from information. It has been referred to as "pseudo-attention deficit disorder" because it tends to cause somewhat ADD-like symptoms.

This addiction usually begins with continuously using an Information streaming service, like TeleVision, YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, etc, which gets the brain unaccustomed to idleness, always watching/reading/listening something. Then it spreads onto other Information retrieval activities."

Why is Twitter so addicting? 140 characters is even more addictive ? the dopamine system is most powerfully stimulated when the information coming in is small so that it doesn?t full satisfy. A short text or twitter (can only be 140 characters!) is ideally suited to send our dopamine system raging.

Dopamine Makes You Addicted To Seeking Information

I think, I do.

Tell me more.

:1orglaugh

My day/night yesterday was Wikipedia - first stop was 'First World War', probably 2 hours on that and 'Gallipoli' and 'Vimy Ridge', then 'Sephardic Jews' and 'Moors', another 2 hours, and on Twitter reading and tweeting hockey and Seth Blatter shit off an on all the time.

Can never get tired of reading about WWI and WWII - total insanity, no matter how much I read about them it still drops my jaw how intelligent human beings in the 20th century could let it happen.

Yes I do

I am positive on that.

110% I am...

The Brassmonkey Syndrome ...

is that 110% European or US ? :Graucho

I am sure there are enough of us here to form a support group for it. We can text each other during the meetings.

Then this will fire up your neurotransmitter receptors:

I am addicted to stats - I spend 89.7% of my day looking at them...

hah, a negative spin on learning, thanks pop psychology!

I should read the Hitler book, looks like it's considered the best biography of Hitler, but i don't really understand his conclusion - Hitler may have destroyed the 'old Europe' but his war left Germany in shambles and divided into 2 countries, Central and East Europe swept under the Iron Curtain. And the liberal bourgeois order didn't disappear from Western Europe.

I guess everyone reading this thread is suffering from it.

I thought the same at first with regard to Western Europe 'liberal bourgeois' was probably more of and expression of contempt by this writer?
Alan Bullock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I would agree with the 'old Europe' statement -- the sun set on the British Empire :winkwink: European colonial empires were dissolved too after WW2.

YES!!!Tell me tell me tell me!!!!hmm?

I confess that I often find myself bored while online. For example if I am waiting even for a few seconds for a page to load or a video to start I will click on another tab and check out something else. I know people that are in major information addiction. They can't function without a TV on in the room and they can't have a conversation without checking their phone. That one always annoys me. If we are talking, talk to me, don't text someone else and update your Facebook status while we talk.

There really is a lot of useless information online so I would not call it information addiction as that implies some actual value in BUT certainly the smartphone has enabled a lot of people to really fully develop their internet addiction!

yeah, i am probably addicted too, just reading this mutt: https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-pr...t-6-homes.html
while i knew in advance what was the whole thread going to be about, i still opened the page and read it whole....

How to you distinguish a supposed "addiction" such as this from mere "habit"?

the question is: how do i get rid of it?

i need more brassdvtimes

I am definitely, and it becomes worse :) Stats, facebook, forums are my passion

Form new habits. Typically takes 2-3 weeks of consistent effort. :)

:1orglaugh

boy no kidding :(

I think part of the definition of an addiction is physical and/or mental suffering when the addictive thing/activity is not available to you.

Almost everybody these days is on the Internet every day, it's a habit - then you're invited to go camping somewhere remote with no Internet, some people would be fine or even happy that first day without the Internet, other people who are addicted would feel stressed out. A habit that you become physically/emotionally dependent on is more than a habit.

Wikipedia only makes things worst Tabarnak! it is an endless loop. (how many are googling Tabarnak? lol )
I start with a word and then I find another interesting one in blue that I open on the next tab, and another and another..

I do this too. Between tasks I'll check here, 3 other boards, facebook, etc, even if it's just a few minutes, and not always to post obviously, but read through, then when I'm actually done working for the day properly I'll do this and reply to a thread here and there, post on fb and so on. I can't even queue up in a shop if there's more than 3 people in line, I hate waiting doing nothing, so when online and as I say, between tasks or a page is loading slow, I'll do the same as yourself. Counter-productive no doubt about it, but I can't shake it.

looks like we need to form an addiction group - anyone setting up the message board for that?