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Hi My name is Mark and I am an Internetholic

by sloanjim
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There....i've admitted it so I am on the road to recovery?

I seriously think I am addicted to surfing the net, checking emails, working on my bizz online etc....I think Interent surfing etc is actually a disease officially?

I tried to take a weekend off last weekend.....and I just found excuse after exuse to log on and check things out.

So Friday afternoon I logged off and took the laptop to my friends house and told him I would pick it up Monday morning.

Oh man.....talk about withdrawal. I woke up Saturday morning and looked where my laptop normally is...now just an empty space. I knew if it was there I would have logged in. But I was glad I had no option but to do other things.

As it turend out it got easier as the weekend went on. It was my sons third birthday party on sunday and we had a great time with family and friends. Would i have sneaked a quick log in during this? But I couldn't.

I went to bed early every night....9:30 Friday/Sat/Sunday....LOL my nights out drinking are well and truly over.

I read books, relaxed, walked around with my son one evening on his new spider man bike.....Would I have forfitted some of this time if I could have logged on?

So I did it and now I need to push on. I am determine dto do this every weekend until I can trust my-self with not logging in on a weekend and evening any longer.

When I did log in Monday...nothing major. My bizz carried on. No-one needed me. There was no need for me to ever log in over the weekend. Everything ticked over.

Anyone else think they too might have an addiction problem with the Net? You'd be surprised how litle habits of logging in on a Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon, evenings, turn into major time vampires.
  • Profile picture of the author Lou Diamond
    Hello,
    I am addicted as well, I used to just do it for fun but now I turned it into a website that I wanted to see done.
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  • Profile picture of the author martinglover
    I went away for a week to fuerteventura and didn;t touch my email for a week. I had the sweats by the fourth day!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    I read a study not too long ago that pretty much confirmed the internet as a viable addiction of concern.

    I think a lot of us here are borderline addicts.
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  • Profile picture of the author NicholasX
    Hey, I'm addicted too.. a day without internet felt really weird, it feels like something important is missing..
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    • Profile picture of the author sanhal
      I agree. When I am invited anywhere for the day I enjoy it far a while but then I start to get bored and start wishing I could get back to my computer. Is that sad or what?

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  • Profile picture of the author warrioor
    Hello mark,take it easy,you are not alone man, I also feel I am addicted my self,but luckily I don't have my own internet at home.I only connected to the world in the office so it kind a help me to get addicted badly to this technology
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  • Profile picture of the author JackPowers
    Internet Marketing is the cure for internet addiction.

    Seriously, I spend a lot of time on the internet, maybe 10 hours a day on workdays and 5-6 hours on days off.

    If that was all I did then it would be too much. Been there too. Now, I make sure to put my 'real' social life ahead.

    Not a problem really.

    Being addicted to internet marketing is still much better than letting yourself be passively 'entertained' by the latest reality show on the TV.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mikedb
    Originally Posted by sloanjim View Post

    There....i've admitted it so I am on the road to recovery?

    I seriously think I am addicted to surfing the net, checking emails, working on my bizz online etc....I think Interent surfing etc is actually a disease officially?

    I tried to take a weekend off last weekend.....and I just found excuse after exuse to log on and check things out.

    So Friday afternoon I logged off and took the laptop to my friends house and told him I would pick it up Monday morning.

    Oh man.....talk about withdrawal. I woke up Saturday morning and looked where my laptop normally is...now just an empty space. I knew if it was there I would have logged in. But I was glad I had no option but to do other things.

    As it turend out it got easier as the weekend went on. It was my sons third birthday party on sunday and we had a great time with family and friends. Would i have sneaked a quick log in during this? But I couldn't.

    I went to bed early every night....9:30 Friday/Sat/Sunday....LOL my nights out drinking are well and truly over.

    I read books, relaxed, walked around with my son one evening on his new spider man bike.....Would I have forfitted some of this time if I could have logged on?

    So I did it and now I need to push on. I am determine dto do this every weekend until I can trust my-self with not logging in on a weekend and evening any longer.

    When I did log in Monday...nothing major. My bizz carried on. No-one needed me. There was no need for me to ever log in over the weekend. Everything ticked over.

    Anyone else think they too might have an addiction problem with the Net? You'd be surprised how litle habits of logging in on a Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon, evenings, turn into major time vampires.
    Hi,

    I know what you mean!
    If you want to get serious just PM me.
    This could turn the wrong way and that is NOT needed!

    PM me if you want to buddy

    regards,

    Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author digitalmediapassion
    Yeah i can say i'm totally addicted to the internet,especially since i work in the field. I will work 8hours on the internet (heck im on the internet now typing this msg ) . Then when i get home i will gone the internet to work on my own websites. I can't break the addiction .
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  • Profile picture of the author jlxsolutions
    i Would NOT call it addiction.
    Its just transferal of life into the web you got your friends there your contacts your mail your info flow.
    if its games then yes addiction but web is just another more modern mail to check your mailbox and talk to your buddies and read books.
    now its E-mail IM and info flow.
    Welcome to the development of the human race
    in the future ppl think we were dumb using mail boxes and normal phone calls and books iuu yukky books (i loove reading good books thou but id like them in PDF pl0x)
    Aight i,m a computer addict not internet addict
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