Not addiction; dependency

This week's New Yorker features an article, by Julia Ioffe, on Chatroulette, the quirky video chat service that at this point seems mainly of interest to pervs and reporters. Ioffe suggests that, in addition to all the wank artists and show-me-your-tits doofuses, expeditions into "the Chatroulette vortex" also reveal "a lot of joy": There is, for example, the video of the dancing banana, crudely drawn on lined paper, exhorting people to "Dance or gtfo!" (Dance or get the fuck out.) The banana...