Internet addiction
 

is it possible to actually be addicted to the net? Like drug and alcohol abuse? What are the signs? Do you panic or feel a little crazy when you have no net at home or just the thought of not being able to get online make you anxious? What are the signs? Does your net useage get in the way of living or the important things you have to do?

i think someone can be addicted to porn.

got acouple friends who are.

I think many are addicted to online games

Sure you can be addicted to internet.. here in germany are information centers and self-help groups about that. Signs are loss of friends, loss of reality, excessive use of chat and boards i.e. using the net without special reason

addiction to gfy more like.

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Yes you can.
Remember this from a while back?


A WEST NYACK, N.Y. MAN was found dead at his computer apparently the victim of trying to keep up with too many professional forums. Childress H. Wanamaker, 54, an account executive at a New York-based new media company, died of starvation according to the West Nyack coroner's office. Wanamaker's emaciated body was found by Loraine, his wife of 26 years, who told MediaPost she had been bringing her husband meals on plastic trays for weeks, but that he never took the time to eat them.

"He was glued to his computer 24/7," she said tearfully. "He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating." She added that Wanamaker's last words were "OK Picard, stick that in your pipe and smoke it..."

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In what must be a record, Wanamaker was linked into to over 15,250 other community members, many of whom he exchanged notes with daily. He also contributed to 375 blogs and was expected to start an online column about the impact of interactive communications on health, when he died.


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i kinda am i guess

I remember when i was read one text about internet addiction-some people was so addict they didnt go out from appartment for days so their family has report to police missing man and they was all the time on internet.Some poeple even dont eat when they are on internet.But internet is no longer fun is i used to be before.

could be... why not

I can't leave my desk any longer, I always fear I miss the latest gfy drama

hooked on gfy

yes it is

seek help assap.

I'm hooked but not addicted. I can get by for 3 months without checking my email, friendster accounts, chat and other stuffs on the intenet

very much so

Top 50 Signs that you are addicted to the internet

1. You kiss your girlfriend's home page.
2. Your bookmark takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
3. Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them.
4. You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
5. You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines .
6. You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular
modem and a laptop.
7. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap?and
your child in the overhead compartment.
8. All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection
to the net: 28.8?ISDN?cable modem?T1?T3.
9. And even your night dreams are in HTML.
10. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word
processor.com.
11. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
12. Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a
new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you've never had
heart problems before.
13. You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved
and you don't have a clue when it happened.
14. You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if
new e?mail arrives.
15. Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what
she looks like.
16. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
17. When looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice all of
them are already highlighted in purple.
18. Your dog has its own home page.
19. You've already visited all the links at Yahoo and you're halfway
through Lycos.
20. You can't call your mother?she doesn't have a modem.
21. You realize there is not a sound in the house and you have no idea
where your children are.
22. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it
again.
23. You refer to your age as 3.x.
24. You have commandeered your teenager's phone line for the net and
even his friends know not to call on his line anymore.
25. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
26. Even though you died last week, you've managed to retain OPS on your
favorite IRC channel.
27. You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
28. You don't know the sex of three of your closest friends, because
they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
29. Your husband tells you he's had the beard for 2 months.
30. You miss more than five meals a week downloading the latest games
from Apogee.
31. You start looking for hot HTML addresses in public rest rooms.
32. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you
landscape.
33. You tell the cab driver you live at
http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html
34. You actually just now tried that 123.elm.street address.
35. You tell the kids they can't use the computer because "Daddy's got
work to do" and you don't even have a job.
36. Your friends no longer send you e?mail?they just log on to your IRC
channel.
37. You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built?in keyboard and mouse.
38. Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."
39. You are so familiar with the WWW that you find the search engines
useless.
40. You get a tattoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 1.1
or higher."
41. You never have to deal with busy signals when calling your
ISP?because you never log off.
42. You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in
front of your computer with a toilet.
43. You forget what year it is.
44. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
45. You ask your doctor to implant 1GB in your brain.
46. You leave the modem speaker on after connecting because you think it
sounds like the ocean wind?the perfect soundtrack for "surfing the net".
47. You begin to wonder how on earth your service provider is allowed to
call 200 hours per month "unlimited."
48. You turn on your computer and turn off your wife.
49. Your wife says communication is important in a marriage?so you buy
another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can
chat.
50. As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your
first instinct is to search for the "back" button.

I'm on the pc like 12 hours a day.. So. what do you think?:helpme

It's actually a real addiction. As far as I know you can even get psychological treatment against it.

Definitely to games. :D

The internet does own me:Oh crap

I'm sort of addicted to it but not too much.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

This was the funniest thing I have read in a while. :thumbsup

ya, ever since gfy and adult.com took over it really has just been downhill from there :/

You are the perfect example...5k posts in 4 months.....:1orglaugh :1orglaugh
I'm guessing your life is headed in the right direction:1orglaugh

gfy is a bit addictive!

yes I think it is definitely possible..

ive been addicted to the internet since 1996 andit hasnt gotten any better