Pathological Internet Use

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Originally Posted by xshayla701 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ask yourself the following questions, which are the official criteria of Addictive Internet Behavior (Adapted from the DSM-IV, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition)

Do you:

1) feel preoccupied with the Internet (i.e., thinking about the Internet when offline)?
2) feel a need to use the Internet with increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction?
3) have an inability to control your Internet use?
4) feel restless or irritable when attempting to cut down to stop Internet use?
5) use the Internet as a way of escaping from problems or of relieving a poor mood (i.e., feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety or depression)?
6) lie to family members or friends to conceal the extent of involvement with the Internet?
7) jeopardize or risk the loss of significant relationship, job, educational or career opportunity because of the Internet?
8) after spending an excessive amount of money on online fees, often return another day?
9) go through withdrawal when offline (e.g., increased depression, anxiety, etc.)?
10) stay online longer than originally intended?
Individuals who have met four or more of the criteria over the past 12 month period, would be classified as dependent.

1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10

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Originally Posted by PureLo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wait did i miss something? Did Akyra suddenly become an intellectual adult instead of a troll feeder?

How many boards have members that spend most of their night hours (and in many cases, daylight hours as well) online, rather than taking care of their family or taking part in real society and real interaction with physical human beings? How many message boards have weekly or monthly soap-opera-like dramas going on that people are so embroiled with, that they have to take time away from people and things in their real life?

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This man predicted the emergence of "virtual" meeting places:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_8-...ure=plpp_video

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If you want people to get outdoors so much, bring the cost of gasoline down to something like 70 cents per gallon.

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Because right now it's a whole lot cheaper (and timely) to use cellphones and laptops and other portables for personal communications with family and friends.

And some people don't have a choice. They work all day sitting at a keyboard doing the same ol' tasks for a company that views them as little more than a number.

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Originally Posted by stormlord [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This man predicted the emergence of "virtual" meeting places:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_8-...ure=plpp_video

Go to 3:48 for the meat.

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Originally Posted by stormlord [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Go to 3:48 for the meat.

Somebody pointed to his comments about using monkeys as wrong. But it's not.

Go here to find out he was right:
http://www.monkeyhelpers.org/

If this video doesn't open your eyes a bit then they're closed.

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His comments about dolphins may have been inspired by this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dolphin

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His comments about AI might be accurate as well. Any brief review of the "internet" will yield a vast array of information about the changing AI landscape.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ibm-develop...uter-chip.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/jeo...rix,12199.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...es.html?ref=hp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oozFn2d45tg

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Five posts in a row makes you an internet addict