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Internet Addiction - Waking till late hours


Expert: Hope - 5/22/2004

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You might be more experienced to say if this is a problem or not.
 I don't know what net addiction is but I just often find myself unable to disconnect myself from the web (well...in a way sort of).
  I spend a lot of time going through technology related articles (my main interest). I find links to them from emails, rss and other sources. I just can't have enough and need to be updated with entire details, sitting all through the night till 2 or 3 am, starting fom around 2330 or 0000. Can't help but the articles of new discoveries are simply amazing.
  Later on when i do break off I feel then how badly I am tired.
  I am not in the mood of pleading (though i will surely say "please" :) and i don't take it as a problem, but somehow I felt like I could tell it to someone whom i felt would be on a similar plane of understanding.
  Basically I just need to hit the sack early and save my dial-up hours. My ISP is already helping me by giving crappy connections that disconnect more then they don't

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Hey there ,

Ah well I hope that telling you I've been there will make you feel better, not with technical articles though, but with Online Magazines and Politics related articles J . What I do is that I print all the things that I want to read when I feel the urge to disconnect and go to sleep, in the next morning I read them on my way to college or when I have the time during the day. You may consider that whatever you do to keep yourself updated with what's happening in the world, you certainly will miss one of two. So do you have a problem or not.. Well from what I understood from your email, its obvious to me that your body surely have a problem with you spending all your time locked in your chair J Try finding solutions, to determine if you have a problem or not .. Make a list of things that you think as advantages and disadvantages of the Internet one your life. Needles to say my disadvantages were way more than the advantages. So if you think you have a problem, printing the articles is one solution, the other is finding another sources of getting information such as Technology magazines.

Hope that I was able to help! If not don't hesitate to write me back.

Hope


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