If you have to ask

In The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about a very quick safety on the worry that there may be something wrong with you in this regard. "If you think you might be a psychopath," he says, I think. I'm quoting from memory. "You aren't one."

The trigger on that defense is largely about empathy. The book goes into much greater detail about how psychopaths more or less lack any of it, and this allows them to succeed in cuthroat businesses (or, you know, murder) without the blocks that usually come with morality.

I think the opposite can be said for internet addiction. If you think, even for a moment, that you might be addicted to the internet, you are. I am. I need to work on it. I will work on it.