Internet addiction

[[deleted user]]

I deactivated my Facebook account for awhile to help get away. I'm too afraid to do that to Goodreads, I figure you would pack up the house and move, so when I came back no one would be home. :-)

[Sally, la reina]

That's sad, Jim!

[Sally, la reina]

I wholeheartedly embrace the addiction. I like you guys a lot more than most real life people.

[Sally, la reina]

We're not booze! You learn stuff here.

[Félix]

Where's the keg? *looks around*

[Félix]

*enables Misha*

[Sally, la reina]

Flintstones booze?

[Matt]

FB seems somewhat more forgiving than GR about the temporary account deletions, as I have noticed that people who delete get all of their friends back automatically upon returning.

We seem to be in the same drunken boat regarding the free time squandering, Misha...

[Flora]

My work finally cut us off of social networking sites so I have to do without now :{ it certainly makes the day longer because there is alot of downtime where I am. I don't have as much time to be on afterwork because of being busy with so many other things. I feel like I really miss out on alot.

[Sally, la reina]

So your work doesn't consider GR to be social networking? Cause that's how we all use it.

[Félix]

Betty or Wilma?

[[deleted user]]

Sally wrote: "So your work doesn't consider GR to be social networking? Cause that's how we all use it."

Amen sistah!

[[deleted user]]

Larry wrote: "Betty or Wilma?"

Fred or Barney?

[Félix]

Larry wrote: "Betty or Wilma?"

What the hell?

[[deleted user]]

Larry wrote: "Larry wrote: "Betty or Wilma?"

What the hell?"

Are you questioning yourself or me?

[Félix]

I'm questioning everything, Jim.

[[deleted user]]

As it should be Larry!

[Félix]

What do you mean by that?

[[deleted user]]

Good one!

[Jaime]

I spend less time on the internet now because my job moved into the city. It brought on a now 2 hr a day commute and the restriction of sites like facebook and e-mail. No restriction on goodreads though :-)

At night though I have just become lazy. I go home and eat dinner and watch tv. Or I go out places w/ friends. So I don't really go on-line much then either.

[Félix]

I can quit anytime I want to.

[Lori]

I go through a cycle of starting off nice and balanced with a healthy dose of "reality" and then I start adding more and more time to the internet (especially here) until that's all I'm doing and what's more I just keep sitting here, hitting reset every minute to see if anything new has happened! THis can go on for an hour! And then I realize uh oh, time to step back, I lose my computer mojo, and the cycle begins again. I wish I could be like Mr Flower, and be in balance all the time.

But I also can't get out alot, so I'm so glad to have made friends here. And yes, I consider quite a few very close friends. Maybe even closer than real life. Is that pathetic or what.

[Lori]

Oh and Misha, I have The Surliest teenager, and I keep reading these articles about how families should eat together, but we all congregate at the coffee table in the living room and the TV is on. I hate it - I'm not a TV watcher. Anyway, I've been worried, but hey, you see, totally cool, so maybe I'm not harming Jake too much.

At least in that respect. :D

[[deleted user]]

Larry wrote: "I can quit anytime I want to."

Really?

I'm relatively new to internet chat. I am totally addicted. I haven't made any attempt to strike a balance yet.

[Félix]

Absolutely. I just don't happen to want to right now.

[Phil]

Gail wrote: "I'm relatively new to internet chat. I am totally addicted. I haven't made any attempt to strike a balance yet."

Oh, these young 'uns. I remember in the early 1980s, chatting at 300 baud.

I searched on "300 baud" and came up with this blog post that I probably could have written myself, though I am probably ten years older than the author. And sometime in the mid '80s, my buddy had one of those sweet Amiga computers the blog briefly mentions. I remember editing my user files and giving my game-self some kick-ass weaponry in battle games.

[Félix]

Uh huh.

[Sally, la reina]

This self imposed hiatus isn't going so well.

[Sally, la reina]

No, mine.

[RandomAnthony]

You haven't been on that much. So it's more of a cut-back to celebrate.

(All in the framing!)

[Félix]

So did I.

[Félix]

Excellent, M.

[Félix]

Ya think?

[Félix]

But ....

[Félix]

Yup. BRB.

[Phil]

Larry wrote: "But ...."

So did you do those dots correctly, or .  .  .?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lori wrote: "I go through a cycle of starting off nice and balanced with a healthy dose of "reality" and then I start adding more and more time to the internet (especially here) until that's all I'm doing and what's more I just keep sitting here, hitting reset every minute to see if anything new has happened!"

That's just sad.

::hits reset::

[Mona]

I try really hard to monitor my time surfing b/c all the time I spend here on GR and other sites is time away from:

.family
.chores that pile up
.reading

I am now using hubby's new iPad so he is not griping as much.

[Carol]

I feel guilty at work on FB but not here! I work at a library, GR is about books! It's totally ok! Right? Right?!

::reset::

[Mona]

I kinda like the fact that it's not only about books.

[Brittomart]

Totally addicted to the internet. TOTALLY. I go CRAZY when it's down. CRAZY.

Like, literally, my body has a physical reaction when I can't access the internet.