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From those nosy, pesky reports at ABC (by way of TechTV):
"For 17-year-old Jessica Nichols of Renton, Wash., the time she spent online became an unmanageable situation."
The linky.
The gist: is spending too much time on the Internet a compulsion or an addiction? I say there is never enough time to be spent on the Internet.
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<blah, blah, blah, snip of most of the article>
[the conclusion]
Nichols broke her online instant messaging habit by going cold turkey and taking an anti-depressant. "I feel a lot more in control now," Nichols said.
Today she can go back online, but says she uses the computer much differently from the way she did before. "I feel like I can walk away and do something else," she said. Although a computer doesn't look anything like a drug, Cash warns that a high tech addiction can be destructive.
"People can name alcoholism or drug addiction, but computers tend to wear a halo. People think of them in benevolent, benign terms," Cash said.
As for Nichols, now that she spends less time at her computer, she finds more time to pursue other things in life, like photography. Whether you call the problem Nichols wrestled with a compulsion or an addiction, it is clear she has found a healthy balance between the Internet and other activities. She no longer runs her life on online time.
I think she really got banned and no one wants to PM her. That's how she kicked her "addiction."
"For 17-year-old Jessica Nichols of Renton, Wash., the time she spent online became an unmanageable situation."
The linky.
The gist: is spending too much time on the Internet a compulsion or an addiction? I say there is never enough time to be spent on the Internet.
😉
<blah, blah, blah, snip of most of the article>
[the conclusion]
Nichols broke her online instant messaging habit by going cold turkey and taking an anti-depressant. "I feel a lot more in control now," Nichols said.
Today she can go back online, but says she uses the computer much differently from the way she did before. "I feel like I can walk away and do something else," she said. Although a computer doesn't look anything like a drug, Cash warns that a high tech addiction can be destructive.
"People can name alcoholism or drug addiction, but computers tend to wear a halo. People think of them in benevolent, benign terms," Cash said.
As for Nichols, now that she spends less time at her computer, she finds more time to pursue other things in life, like photography. Whether you call the problem Nichols wrestled with a compulsion or an addiction, it is clear she has found a healthy balance between the Internet and other activities. She no longer runs her life on online time.
I think she really got banned and no one wants to PM her. That's how she kicked her "addiction."