How many hours a day do you spend in front of the internet?

...oh and theres more (from the post below) that i forgot. just last night, i guess you could say i had a hallucination. it was more like an extreme fantasy...i began talking about something i had just learned to the wall, thinking about being somewhere else talking to people. then i snapped out of it and realized i was whispering to the wall. theres also something else....and its chronic. but i dont really want to say it here.

im 15 year old female, and i spend every second that i am home, online...and maybe a few hours a month i read. My laptop is in my room, and i always keep my door locked when im in my room. i use my laptop from learning about psychology, handwriting analysis, evolution of homosapiens, to  playing rpg, mmorpg, learning web coding, and rarely talking to my friends... Sometimes im on my laptop all night long, and the 15" screen is about a foot away from my face, which is deteriorating my vision and making me become nearsighted (currently 20/80 vision). Also, i believe i may have a type of insomnia known as DSPS...so far i've spent more than 6 hours learning about different types of insomnia. Even before i had my computer, i would read books all night long until it was 4-6am and i could fall asleep. And this (DSPS) of course doesn't help my computer addiction. Although i wouldn't call it an addiction, because i could easily replace it with something else, but i really don't want to. I could easily replace it with reading or playing sports, both of which i love, and are more beneficial to me. However, I have a social anxiety and you need to have someone else to play sports with...which i don't. And as for reading rather than being on the laptop...I read books too fast because of my insomnia and fast reading-easy comprehension. It took me less than a year to read most of the John Grisham and James Patterson books, while i was also in school (read first at 5th grade, but started to go on a marathon of reading them in 6th grade)....so my mother doesn't really like spending a lot of money on books, yet she complains that i'm on my computer too much, and she doesn't even know about the hours past 11am until 4-6am. OH and now that its summer, i  don't have school and i usually wake up at 1-3pm, and fall asleep at 4-6am. during the hours i am awake i spend them all on my laptop. thats 13 hours, but i do spend .5-1 hours a day taking my dog outside, and foraging for food in the empty fridge for food if im bored (i eat when im bored, and i've lost my six pack now that i don't do gymnastics anymore). oh thats another thing...the hunger pains. when im on my computer in the middle of the night, i usually have only been awake for 3 hours when my family eats dinner, so i don't eat that much...but then when i've been awake for like 8 hours, its late at night...and everyone else is sleeping so i can't eat much...since the kitchen opens into the family room (no walls separating), where my dad sleeps on the couch. YET another thing is the earphones. I watch a lot of movies and listen to music on my laptop that my ears start to hurt sometimes. This doesn't happen normally during the schoolyear, only during the summer when im on it the most. so pretty much...i guess i'm addicted. before i had my laptop, i had an old family computer located in a room near the bottom of the stairs. the screen was bright during the night, and the double doors had glass panes. So I used to sneak downstairs (my mom's a  light sleeper and wakes up in the middle of the night, anywhere from 2-4am, sometimes multiple times)...and i'd go on the computer for hours. This happened nearly every night for over a year, it stopped when I got my laptop. But i only got caught a couple of times. 

If you work from home, and online - well let's just say that advertising that says you'll make millions on line while you lay on the beach is a bunch of shit - LOL.  But I love my work

Hi, my name is Kel and I am addict and so is my husband-to-be. I am addicted to surfing and learning. Also, as an aspiring writer I do a lot of research online. Lately though I have become addicted, spending about 8 hrs. a day tracking what my partner has been doing online. He is addicted to the women on the net, mostly texting. He also spends a huge amount of time texting his family in another country and doesn't seem to have much time for anything else these days, including me! He will add women to his messenger list or hide their emails and phone numbers so I won't see them. He tries to hide and delete everything even though he knows I am more then smart enough to find it. I have asked him to stop repeatedly telling him this is hurting me and destroying our relationship and yet he cannot stop himself! I truly believe he is addicted to this online behavior. He tries to justify it by saying they are all friends or relatives. Yeah right!  I truly believe he can't stop and needs help but what can we do? I hope they do find this to be an actual medical addiction because I know some other's who are also addicted and if they cannot stop on their own then there should be some type of help out there for them. If this type of help were readily available my partner and I would be the first inline instead of online!

The lowest you can put is 2-3 hours per day? This skews the graph heavily because some people actually use their computer 0-1 hrs per day on average (not me though! I'm 4-7). I'd suggest fixing this skew though.

With an Internet Business you're online all the time

I am NOT an addicct ... so I spend 14-16 hours a day online, and have for 13 years ... but I am homebound and disabled and all my friends, my social life, everything is online.  Doesn't mean I can't leave it ... oops  ... my puter is hardwired to me, when did that happen?  :LOL

I play CSS online game at least 2hours a day and spend another 3 maybe browsing etc, so I decided to put that to good use and Im making a website in my spare time which will generate income while im in university, my tv is also in my pc so really I have it on all the time!

I always online ... Sooo Whaaat ????

I voted based on non-class time. I have an online class that I spend 6-7 hours studying for some days. 2-3 hours is leisure time :)

I think I began to addict to the Internet a month ago. At that time, I was down and got no one to talk to, Internet is the only way for me to find someone to talk about my stuffs.

Hey Bob

Hi my name is Bob and I have an internet addiction.

im an internet tech, all i have is the internet..id rather i didnt spend so much time in front of the computer.

On a school day, I spend about 5-9 hours, and on non-school days, I spend between 7-15 hours, depending on what I am doing that day. The longest I have been on the computer at one single time is about 19 hours, and that was a day before school, not Sunday though. We had a day off of school.

i spend most of my time on the internet, just doing random stuff online. I became hooked in 2002 and i am till hooked............well what can i say i love the internet and so does many people.........

Hi my name is Mike... and  I"m a Warcrack a holic...as a matter of fact so is the rest of my family

Well... I am a currently unemployed birthmother with a husband who works all the time. We only have one car (which my husband needs since he is a manager), so  I only really go places when he is home. I'm attempting to start my own genealogy business (which means I also research my own) and a nonprofit, as well as upload all my photos to my computer so I can create a scrapbook to give to my son when he is older. I also use the internet to keep in touch with friends, as I've kind of grown out of the whole "phone attached to my ear" thing. I do use Myspace/Facebook. I play the Sims 2, but not as much as I used to. I feel like it isn't so much an addiction as it is that the things I want to get done in a day require the computer.

I guess you could say  i'm addicted. I'm a single older retired lady  who lives alone. I have no grandchildren and only one married son, who i dont see often. I have no car, so dont really get out much.  I've had the net since oct. 2002. I spend alot of hours  a day on the computer, playing games..going to chat rooms, playing and downloading music. singing on kareokee site, YouTube music videos, looking  up info, reading my email, watching some  TV shows  online, am always finding new things to do, never thought of it as an addiction until now, and you had to tell me.LOL

Sigh  mine is work related, only actual "fun" time would be about one hour daily

on skull days 2-3 hrs but on non skul days more dan 8hrs.

in a school day i spend 2-3 hours.. but if its a weekend or summer! I spend half of my day or 6 hours.. i dont know why but i cant help but stare at the screen.. and im lazy of turning off the comp.that's why i am left spending half of my day staring at my computer!! hehehe..

Damn You StumbleUpon! Just one more click....

Internet saved my life!! Literally!! In 2002 my whole world collapsed with the death of my twins, loss of my husband and home. A freind of mine used to go to Yahoo to chat and I followed him one day, met ppl who I didnt have to see the 'condolence' in their faces, since then got life back on track and still chat to those people I met online. Learnt alot of things from different cultures/countries and happy I found it.They say ur an addict if u check ur Email before u check ur regular mail lol, yes I was an addict..definately was..not so much now as I gained my life back. But I think it has alot of great things to offer aswell as a lot of bad things..like anyone who has a habit, its whether it controls YOU that makes it a problem. 

I spend  like 4 hours a day...I can say I can imaging A day without checking my email and surf on the web, I need for almost everything....

12 is actually possible? Those people need to go tak a walk every now and then

I'm a college student, in class right now...taking notes, and checking email...lolI"m also addicted to facebook and IM, but not in the weird way... 

i work for technology.... so i just love to be with my laptop with high speed net.... also as a very newly wed i feel its good to have your own space.. just put ur computer on and you are ON ;) love it!

I know I spend a lot of time on line but in my defense it's how I'm going to  college...does that make me an internet junkie???? lol  I hope not!

i am a stay at home mom, who doesnt have a car, my family lives in other states, the computer is really all i have to see the outside world and keep myself sane

ok, recently unemployed but i do job searches (instead of wasting gas)..but i pogo alot, yahoo, myspace, facebook, listen to winamp, watch LOTS of free online movies and shows...i dunno...its how i met my fiancee even, i dont see that as bad, but...i realize i need to cut my time down..maybe even to a couple hours a day..when i'm away, i cna't bear being away from my beloved PC longer than i have to be!..i get so anxious...and i anticipate when i throw open the back door come running to check my offline messages, even before bringing my bags in the door or locking the truck up..maybe i'm crazy lol..

I'm a webmaster by profession so of course I'm online a lot (I'm in the 12+ hour category).  It's not all fun and games -- it's work!  The boss cracks the whip to assure I keep getting our minimum 12 million visitors per year and up.  And yes, when I go home after my 8-9 hour slavery, I do log on at home to play games, "poke" friends through my Facebook account, and manage personal emails but I go to sleep at a decent hour and DO have an active social life OUTSIDE of the computer.  There has to be some balance in my life between the screen and real face-to-face interaction with people.  When I go to out of town vacations, I leave the laptop at home and don't go anywhere near web access.

The internet is the absolute best way for guys to meet wild babes!  It's much better than hanging out in a bar or social event, and you can more easily weed out the ones who you can most likely score with from the ones just looking for a boyfriend.  Many guys I know are spending hours on the net for this purpose, rather than spending those same hours out on the prowl in various social settings.

my addiction depends on if I'm off of work or the times I have to work...if I'm off, sometimes I spend al day on the computer and sometimes I don't even touch it. Although I do spend at least 3hrs after work online its like an unwinding time for me :)

I get on and play runescape every chance i get, my kids play also, but not as much as me since I kick them off to play MY game.  Nah I'm not addicted, I just work on computers, think them, and play them.  How can you not be addicted when it's your job to play on the internet? 

A girl in Africa was murdered in 1992, if you don't pass this message around she will posses  your dog and bite you to death. JK!The internet has more interesting stuff than TV. Internet does not have commercials, TV does. Besides, the only thing they show on TV is reality and whenever I watch it, it's just CSI or Comedy Central.

I too, would rather have a computer than a tv, but now with the new tv season starting?, maybe that will change.  There is far too much junk online, much of it porn.

Anyone who posts on this probably spends in excess of 4 hours a day on the internet, honestly, other than people who are stuck at home without a computer .. who doesn't?!

i perfer working on the computer than watching the T.V its a fact

Im not addiced by any stretch, bet about two years ago i played about 12-14 hours a day.

playng gams on line is very relaxing.  TV is mostly garbage and violence

Alright, I may be between 4-7 hours daily, but one-two of those is spent on the webcam with my dad or brothers who live hundreds of miles away. Two more hours is spent watching tutorials to learn new techniques in design applications. About an hour managing bank and brokerage accounts. The net merely consolidates interests and obligations into one area.

The survey starts at 2 hours it does not allow for those users 0-1

The internet is a cess pool of garbage. But in todays world it is impossible to live either without a computer, or use one at least once every other day.

I work from home online and often time put in over time plus my regular nightly 2 hours of 'surfing/gaming" so at the least I am on 10 hours a day up to 14 possibly more.  But I do see a certain addiction.  i know when I am unable to play bejeweled or herd-a-word or do my crosswords I am irritable and have diffuiculty trying to fall asleep.  I have a friend who is a stay-at-home mom and she is totally addicted to ParentsPlace and iVillage message boards.  Being a voyer into others' lives and the drama that surrounds them.  She says it's her 'adult time'. 

Watching television kills brain cells. At least on the internet I'mm almost guaranteed of learning something new and USING a few of those brain cells.

votes from 870 "guests" & only 24 "members" all within a few hours. something isn't right with this picture. aye!

I would sooner surf the web instead of watching TV, keeps me more entertained.   

there's no way bmccue7 spends 2-3 hours a day online.sorry pal, you're in denial.