Internet Addiction

Aion

Aion

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Yes, I'm addicted to the damn thing. It's finally started to hit after I've left my PC off for a few times when at home and constantly feel the need to turn it back on. Since I have no reason to be on it most of the time, the only reason I feel like that is addition.

I was reading a thread in MAL the other day and it was normal for most posters to spend over 10 hours per day on the net. When there are only 24 hours a day and sleep, school work and cooking/eating all take up time, that's pretty scary.

So, I've decided: I'm going to waste time away from the PC screen instead of looking at it. I remember a more severe form of internet addiction from when I played FFXI and I don't want to feel like that again. I'm only going to use the net for a few hours in the morning if possible and then not at all. 8)
 
Good luck to you! I'm fairly certain I wouldn't be able to do that - I'm pretty much addicted to it, also. I don't spend huge amounts of time online everyday, but I rarely go more than 3 hours without logging on to check the news or forums and stuff :/
 
I'm almost always online. It doesn't help that one of my current jobs (in RL) requires me to constantly be near a computer to work remotely if something needs my attention. Until last year the only time I was away from the internet was when I was commuting, but now I have an iPhone even that's filled with e-mail and browsing...

I am an MMO player so I know what addiction can be like, and when I start to feel it about a game I take a break and structure things so that I don't get sucked in. The internet however I see as essential as food and sleep these days.

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I know how it feels. Lets just say World of Warcraft contributed to the failure of a relationship and even 6th form... But I have now torn myself from the drug. Didn't help that I have an extremely addictive and compulsive personality though lol.
 
Don't cut back to that extreme. Everything needs to be done gradually over time.

I used to be quite bad at my previous college. On some days in the morning I would get up and switch on my PC (if I hadn't left it on during the night to speed up my torrents), and not leave my room except for food, shower and toilet.

Right now I'm still addicted, but I'm nowhere near as bad.
 
Another way to fight addiction is to try and find other enjoyable things to do. If you just stay idly at home, you will end up on the internet again.
 
I was terrible a few years ago, starting 6th form was the worst, but ever since I was 13 really I was massively addicted, I played Halo on the pc for a couple of years mostly for a substantial part of the day, and then Flyff even more than that for about a year, but I've been weaning myself off of it for the past year or so by doing other activities, like going out as much as possible, and I just joined a gym =) So it doesn't rule my life anymore.

There's no point in not going on the computer if you've still got nothing else to do, because you'll end up mooching around the house with nothing to do, well unless you find another thing to do like watching TV for hours or reading books or other such things. It's just the best idea to get out of the house.
 
yeh i think i'm in the same boat, i always always i have com on and its never really for any reason, i just surf surf surf, ill go watch some tv with my bf, surf, go out for drinks, come home check my mail and its for no real reason...

i think ive visited every single page wikipedia, including the ones not in english lol

sometimes i dont even know what im doing and ill just go through my bookmarks, having visted them 5mins earlier.

so, atleast ur not on the same boat. i dont think its a bad thing, necessarily. i am a fountain of useless knowledge and if i was on a trip i wudnt feel the need to go to an internet cafe or anything.
 
Yeah, I think I'm part of the club too. I agree with Maxon about the just go on it small parts now and then, don't just stop completely- otherwise you might end up like the character in xxxholic that wanted to quit the pc! Anyway, I don't really have a good reason to stop, so why bother? I have everything I need to do on my pc, other than eating and stuff. And I still find the time to go out with my friends, etc. I go on it alot less now I watch more anime, though; I used to be on it every time I had a chance, now I just go on occasionally (I still leave my pc on 24/7 so I can go on it whenever I want, though). Another thing is that I've noticed I haven't actually watched tv in about 2 years. Which must seem quite strange to most people; But every show I want to watch, I can watch on demand, in hd, on my pc.
 
I'm on it pretty much all the time. By any constellation, do you guys ever feel genuinely bored? I never do, and I think its because I know my way around the internets to sites that interest me. I think, though, apart from current pop culture news and forums, which I have to check when I get home from 8+ hours away - I just spend the time on my laptop watching shows, or doing homework.

Most weeknights [5 - 7 or 8 - 10], and most of the day of part of the weekends I spend away from the computer. Which, although I do absolutely nothing, literally, its nice spending time away.
 
chaos said:
Another way to fight addiction is to try and find other enjoyable things to do. If you just stay idly at home, you will end up on the internet again.
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That's just it. I have too many things at home, so I don't go out. I have anime, manga, books and games as well as internet. My friends all being at uni and stuff is a factor.
 
I think the problem anyone that has lots of RPGs, lots of anime, lots of manga, the internet and a lack of social skills has is a serious lack of things to do outside that will keep them away from obsessive things at home. Trying to get away from the internet when stuck near a PC is like trying to stop smoking when you always have a cig and lighter in your pocket.

I don't know how long I'll last mainly using the net in the mornings but I want to try because I'm getting annoyed with just sitting at my PC and watching hours go by. I never seem to be on the PC for very long, yet an hour goes by whenever I check the clock. I can't say I wouldn't be wasting my time if I, for example, read manga instead, but at least I'll feel like I'm doing something other than looking at the same sotes on my PC.
 
I lasted for a few days and then went back to my old routine. I failed.

I'm going to try again starting from tomorrow. I'll cut the ******* power lead if I have to. -_-
 
Aion said:
I lasted for a few days and then went back to my old routine. I failed.

I'm going to try again starting from tomorrow. I'll cut the ******* power lead if I have to. -_-
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why don't you try connecting at night them spend the day out?
Not being at home is probably the only thing that keeps me out of the internet.
 
Good idea might be to not discuss the solution with the problem itself? Text your mates and go to the pics, walk your dog, watch Coronation Street and even just talk to your mother. And if you're remotely normal, ask a girl out?

There's plenty to do.
 
I am not always on the internet. I am mostly either reading, outside, watching DVD's, or at college.

In terms of the internet though, I am quite addicted to online shopping. One can purchase many things online which they would never find in a local shop in their own country. I do buy a lot of things on the internet, things which I have a preference towards and things that I actually want. 'tis quite difficult to find manga in my current location too, and anime DVD's. With thanks to the internet though I have lot of both. Then there are offiicial Japanese artbooks, statues, soundtracks, and other such things that I would never be able to find without it.
 
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