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Computer addiction/overuse
Do any of you feel like you are addicted to the computer, or use it way way too much?
I can find myself on it for a good 9 hours a day, at least (unless I'm doing something else pre-scheduled, or with a friend all day)
Couldn't sleep this morning (went to bed about 4:30am).
By 6am I had gotten up because I couldn't sleep. Came on DS and Facebook - just looked at the time and it's quarter to 9 :eek:
I don't even know where the time has gone?! I've just been posting a bit, re-reading the same rubbish on Facebook and reading about a few things elsewhere!
I can find myself on it for a good 9 hours a day, at least (unless I'm doing something else pre-scheduled, or with a friend all day)
Couldn't sleep this morning (went to bed about 4:30am).
By 6am I had gotten up because I couldn't sleep. Came on DS and Facebook - just looked at the time and it's quarter to 9 :eek:
I don't even know where the time has gone?! I've just been posting a bit, re-reading the same rubbish on Facebook and reading about a few things elsewhere!
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snap :eek::eek:
If don't have to go out, the computer's on pretty much all day. I tend to 'channel hop' between the same websites in an almost OCD fashion.
it must be great being able to stay up whenever you like because you have no work to go to ever
Oh grow up
I did, I grew up, left school, got a job
Can you not see how you've left yourself a teensie bit open to this?
Not really!
Why does everything have to come down to my health!?
PS. It's a Sunday anyway!!
Go out and do stuff in the day, do something in your house, read a book.
Then "treat" yourself to an hour on the computer.
It does actually work, you feel like you've achieved a lot more by doing new stuff or things you wouldn't usually do, and in turn you enjoy the shorter amount of time you spend in front of the screen more than you do when just mindlessly staring at it for hours and hours on end.
[But Hypno, really, it wasn't very clever to start this thread if you're trying to get the bigots from elsewhere to understand your condition and believe you're justified in not having a job
if you can spend 9 hours a day at a computer messing about could you not spend those 9 hours doing something productive?
I spend 9 hours a day (probably more) at a computer for my job.
Surely if you are addicted you must be picking up some skills
I tend to agree with other posters, although maybe not so nastily. If you've nothing else to do, why worry about being on the computer? It's only if it interferes with other more important things in your life that it matters.
hence, I tend use it a lot at home, sort of making up for lost time. What I have been doing for some time now, is have a radio web site streaming in the background at the same time (or play my music via iTunes).
I think the way things are going, especially with the younger generation is that the PC will be switched on all the time. Doesnt mean its always in use, but it will be always on, so you can just go over to it whenever you want. And yes I know that doesnt do anything to help the elecltricity bill, let alone the CO2 issue, but I think there will be 2 groups of people in the future - those that just leave everything on all the time, while the others will be ultra-greens, and go over the top to save power.
My mate has an XBox addiction, even more so now he has XBoxLive. He will even go on XBoxLive early in the morning, before going to work, and switch it back on as soon as he gets home.
I now log off around half eight/nine pm, read a book or watch a bit of TV and now my sleeping is normal. Took a week or so before my sleep pattern came back but now its bliss.
It's ridiculous, I'm not a kid & there's plenty of other things I can do, but I feel like someone has taken "candy from a baby" off me!
Once I'm back on the web I'm fine, but feel really foolish at getting so worked up about it.
Am I addicted? - you tell me.....
Would you feel the same way if your phone/TV/XBox/whatever was out of action for a day?
Phone yes - need it to connect to the web!
So surely you're addicted to TV, as you turned off the computer to watch it?
http://www.digitalspy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1230285&highlight=
I am well and truly addicted.