...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! I also spend time talking with friends online because I am disabled and my computer is my connection to the outside world. If you'd like to chat some time let me know. I am always looking for new friends and I love meeting new people. Hugs, Kel
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.
I run a blog which is Hustlehard Magazine that requires most of my time. you can also find my on myspace and imeem as well. Personal Myspace -or- Hustlehard Mag Myspace -or- Dj Royale.
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 spend more hourse blogging her are my sites;http://gemstarlightexpress.blogspot.com http://www.rubybenz.com http://www.theworldwidewebaddict.rubybenz.com http://www.mydailynourishment.rubybenz.com http://myeurotravelandadventures.blogspot.com
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 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.
...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! I also spend time talking with friends online because I am disabled and my computer is my connection to the outside world. If you'd like to chat some time let me know. I am always looking for new friends and I love meeting new people. Hugs, Kel
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.
I run a blog which is Hustlehard Magazine that requires most of my time. you can also find my on myspace and imeem as well. Personal Myspace -or- Hustlehard Mag Myspace -or- Dj Royale.
With an Internet Business you're online all the time
yep yep you're right!!..BWAHAHAH!!!
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 mean more hours (hourse) and here (her)
I spend more hourse blogging her are my sites;http://gemstarlightexpress.blogspot.com http://www.rubybenz.com http://www.theworldwidewebaddict.rubybenz.com http://www.mydailynourishment.rubybenz.com http://myeurotravelandadventures.blogspot.com
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!
its good idea to remove loneliness
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 :)
hahaha! Your a filipino! I am an addict too(or so I think)... BTW we have the same problem except I spend more time with the computer.
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.