How many of you are addicted to the Internet(including Clutchfans)?

I'm a fiend. I'm on for at least 10 hours everyday.

 

I read cf instead of doing homework

(Doing it right now too)

 

full blown addict.

the interweb is like blow, only cheaper and the comedown is worse.

 

Me too!!

I dont use the dictionary or the encyclopedias, I go to the internet.

 

I wasn't addicted to the internet until the BBS sucked me in and now, even more so, the damn OOTP chat room.

 

What's really weird, to me, is how my kids are growing up without having to go to a library to do research for school papers. Everything is at their fingertips on the web. Totally different from when I suffered through the agony and boredom of hours at a table with a pile of books or, even worse, scrolling through microfilm, or whatever it was called.

The worm has turned.

 

Honestly -- I think I may have spent more time in my life on the Web than I have off of it. And that's no hyperbole -- I'm on the Internet in one capacity or another probably for 12 hours a day on average. If I'm ever away for more than about four hours, I have a lot of catching up to do. I literally can't do almost anything any more without the web. It's a serious problem, but I don't really seem to care enough to do anything about it.

 

I need the Net for studying and for the rockets and for basketball and for any kind of information i would like to get...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zl5-Wk5u64&search=power rangers intro

 

In a way the internet has become a collective brain. Just consider how people argued before without googling. We actually had to use rhetorical skill, oratory and logic. Now we just go out and dig up stuff obscure quotes and websites to support our positions.

Anyway I'm an addict. Its almost sad how I check to make sure if I'm out of town to make sure either the hotel I'm staying at as Internet or I go out of my way to find an internet cafe. I like to tell myself its for work but honestly its for Clutchfans.

 

most definitely. i have a tv nearby at all times so it's hard to say which addiction would hold sway. i mean life would be more disrupted w/o the web (just for things like paying bills, finding info), but losing tv might be even more devastating. not watching sports, sportscenter, sitcoms (assuming i can't download the shows), adult swim, cheers reruns would be horrible. the internet for me is mostly clutchfans (majority of the time) or hornfans (for my UT fix), and yet it's still so vital. when i need to know a word, dictionary.com. need to find something like the name of a song, location of a business, a quote, an article about something, use google. wanna know about something, wikipedia. damn i love wikipedia. actually, i just remembered all the free pr0n. hmmm, maybe the internet wins. either way, i loves me some internet.

as for people talking about research, man has the internet been a life saver. i'm the right age that i can remember going to the library and actually looking up books and having to copy pages out of encyclopedias and yet have now been able to do many reports using the Google method. the Google method is waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy better. looking up books on amazon.com and pretending i used them in my report beats the library any day.

 

The ones I hated were the literature reference books full of essays about a piece of literature. Glad I'll never have to use one of those again.

 

try this extenstion, assuming you use firefox.
dictionary search

 

I just can't get over how great those going to school now have it. And my kids are in the 4th and 9th grades. They use the web for school all the time, and it frees up time for other, more important things... like playing softball (had to get something outdoors in there, lol!), computer games, console games, surfing different sites of interest, reading books (this they do a lot, thank god!)

I know my kids take it all for granted. What if, for some reason, we lost it? I think the current generation would be lost itself, at least for awhile. This is just a huge social change. Gigantic. The long-term ramifications are still to be seen.

 

Me too, I should be doind some last minute studying right now.

 

Kids still go to the libraries, except now they go to defeat the evil dark overload who rules the lands of Runescape.

 

Honestly? No.

The only reason I have so many posts is because I've spent most of the last six years working at places that have so much downtime that I need something to get me through the day. Lately, I'll go home, do my Swirve job then not get back on the internet all night long. I don't miss it at all.

I will say that I used to be, however. Not anymore.

 

HA! Were you let into D&D, you'd be sucked back in.

 

The first step is admitting you have a problem Hangout Boy.

 

This is something I wonder about is while the internet and communication technology has been so great how much of it is becoming a crutch that also stunts human development as much as it enhances it? If everything is available online how much does that stunt personal memory skills or when so much communication is remote has that stunted interpersonal relations? There's some good evidence that the rise of video games is contributing to the lack of physical fitness among kids so does the rise of other parts of the internet lead to a lack of mental fitness? For instance while people are writing more most people's language skills aren't getting better if anything the opposite since texting and emailing encourages chopping up language into acronyms and emoticons than well thought out expressions.

 

LOL