Addicted to the Internet!

Keesha

Keesha

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I’ve just come to the realization that I’m addicted to the internet.


I’m not doing things that I normally do that I generally care about.
I’m online so much my neck and shoulders hurt yet I still stay on.
This can’t be good.

Has anybody else felt like this and what did you do about it?
 

Yes. I feel a shift in myself I’m not really liking too much.
I’m not the same person and no longer feel the same connection with my spirit which is important to me.
This has to change.
Perhaps there’s too much information and too many people to talk with. :shrug:
Yep! It’s like having too much chocolate or too much of a good thing.
 
Keesha said:
Yes. I feel a shift in myself I’m not really liking too much.
I’m not the same person and no longer feel the same connection with my spirit which is important to me.
This has to change.
Perhaps there’s too much information and too many people to talk with. :shrug:
Yep! It’s like having too much chocolate or too much of a good thing.
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Hugs.
 
I will not say that I am addicted to the net, but I am thankful for it!! 6 months to a year ago I was suffering from insomnia from drug side effects and my tablet got me through it!!
 
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Other than Saturday, I turn on our desktop right after I get dressed and get on it. Seems like I'm always researching something and looking at what's happening in the world. Check forums I'm in for new topics or replies. If we need to buy something online, I'm the one to do it. Have to use it to process any pictures we have taken with iPhone and/or digital camera.

Not on it all day, but am on it weekday mornings and Sunday morning.
 
Keesha said:
I’ve just come to the realization that I’m addicted to the internet.


I’m not doing things that I normally do that I generally care about.
I’m online so much my neck and shoulders hurt yet I still stay on.
This can’t be good.

Has anybody else felt like this and what did you do about it?
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Absolutely I have been an internet addict.
I spent hours on pinterest alone and forget about youtube "how to" videos.

I had my internet service disconnected and only use the 3gb of data allowed on my cell; which runs out very quickly.

On rare occasions I will borrow a wifi hotspot from my library and . . .there I go again.
 
Gary O is right .... you'll get over it. I was addicted for a long time ...( at least that's what my husband said ) and I gradually tapered off when things got boring. I had a dream once that I had reached the end of the internet ... and cried. LOL It's pretty bad when you DREAM about the computer !
 
I think the entire younger generation (millenials and younger) are addicted to their phones, which in a way is the same thing. They cannot go more than a few seconds without looking at them. They have taken the place of reading, except for what is on their devices, and has largely taken the place of regular conversation (talking, not texting) as well.
 
Some people are into sports, other people are into hobbies, some are into communing with nature, hiking, rafting, etc., others may be into fishing or hunting, or both. I'm into the Internet. No license required, no off season to worry about. Just me, my coffee and the world. It's not an addiction, it's an adventure :D. Don...
 
I guess that I do not think of it as an addiction, but more of just something that I really enjoy, like a happy pastime. When I was younger, lived in the country, and always had outside chores to do, and spent my free time either out riding my horse, swimming , fishing, or just working in the garden; I really was only on line at night.
Plus, I still had a clunky old desktop computer, so I was confined to the desk and chair for any time that I did spend online.

Now, we live in town, the weather is either hot and muggy, or cold and rainy, and the time I can spend outside is more limited; so I do more things inside now. Plus, my health is not as good as it was when I was younger; so that limits me, too.
I have replaced my outside adventures with inside ones, learning about things on youtube, and reading webpages about topics that I am interested in.
I have online friends in the forums that I belong to; so I look forward to conversations online each day, and I keep in touch with my family through iMessages and Facebook.

So, yes, I would really MISS the internet if I didn’t have it; but I still think that it is a choice and not an addiction for me.
 
I like ya style Macfan - I suppose it's comes down to what we do on the 'net. Are we a "loner" and not doing any social mixing like this for example. But then again I guess anyone can be a "loner" without a computer at all and just live a solitary lifestyle? - but we are all entitled to pick our own lifestyles! The classic definition of an 'addiction' is a "a habit that one has [performs] consistently, and frequently to the exclusion of all else and usually to ones financial detriment"

the words consistently and frequently are qualifiers I think. so if you are internetting to these lengths then I think it could be classified as an 'addiction' However having quick and consistent blasts like my 1-2hrs in the morning before the rest of my day I wouldn't classify as an addiction. [thought I'd get my pitch in for being 'normal' before going much further! ] Yes so neglecting all other responsibilities one might have. They have found some people dead at their pc ; using it consistently for days and days without eating or drinking! Now that is extreme addiction - no??
 
Yes, gumbud, most things in moderation are fine. By the same token, most anything taken to the extreme isn't. I like your style too; "thought I'd get my pitch in for being 'normal' before going much further!" Normal is such a relative term, don't you think :)? Since I retired, I no longer have to pretend to be 'normal' as much :cool:. So glad I found this forum and all the gooder people here to socialize with. Don...
 
Yes moderation is perhaps key and that requires discipline and I somehow I lost that characteristic :shrug:and am starting to neglect other responsibilities so I will take a needed break. I do however really enjoy the company of the members of this site (perhaps too much ) and thank you for your honest answers. It helped me keep this in a healthier perspective than I had initially viewed it.
 
For me...I believe it is basically two-fold. One , it has become much of , perhaps too much of..my social life. As my friends {&I} age / die off .....person-to-person contact has become much less, almost nonexistent. Friends dropping by while I was in my shop has stopped. Me dropping by has stopped, being somewhere for happy hour has stopped , no more "hey we're grillin' out come on over", no more American Legion picnics, etc.

And Two:....I am constantly looking up this & or that, just trying to feel better...ease pain.

Add to that a few motorcycle forums I follow...which are slowing [for the same reasons] And it totals up too much of my day.
 
I can't say I'm addicted. I have one desktop computer that I share with my husband, no other laptops or phones with internet connections. If I go on vacation for a couple of weeks or a month, I have no computer connections, and get along fine without it. But I do like to get online every day and visit the forums, surf the web, look up things I need to buy, etc. Just ordered some flowers to be sent to a relative for her birthday, she always likes a beautiful arrangement.

I force myself to go offline when I have things I really need to do, yesterday I spent several hours cleaning out the camper, day before I had yard work to take care of, etc. If I'm at home and my computer is down (which is rare), I do get some housework done, much more than when my PC is functioning. :p
 

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