Tuesday, October 17, 2006

You don't say?

The US is Full of "Internet Addicts" The United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics, an unprecedented study released suggested.
Researchers at Stanford medical school said their survey indicated more than one of every eight US residents showed at least one sign of “problematic Internet use."

(Nothing follows)

9 Comments:

Blogger enscout said...

Hi.
My name is Earl and I'm a blogaholic.

waiting for applause....

10/18/2006 05:26:00 AM  
Blogger Teresita said...

That's a very concise post, wretchard. "Nothing follows"... I guess you you kicked the habit! But there's a mess of users who went to another dealer when you cut off their supply last month.

10/18/2006 05:57:00 AM  
Blogger Deuce ☂ said...

Total rubbish and I would write more but I have to get back to my bloggggggg..

10/18/2006 06:59:00 AM  
Blogger Teresita said...

Eutopians seek to regulate vloggers. Surprised?

10/18/2006 07:58:00 AM  
Blogger 49erDweet said...

Whew!  Thankfully the last paragraph of the referenced story clears everything up - at least for me.

"According to preliminary research, the typical Internet addict was a single, college-educated, white male in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential computer use." [emphasis mine]

Since I'm older than that, and reading Wretchard every day is extremely essential, this obviously doesn't apply to me.

Cheers

10/18/2006 08:23:00 AM  
Blogger summignumi said...

Hot damn, I finally qualify for the ADA! Now to find the sleaze ball lawyer to start suing Microsoft, Netscape, Google, Yahoo, etc….

10/18/2006 09:41:00 AM  
Blogger Db2m said...

Given the choice of a bacon cheeseburger or 30 minutes of blogging, I will take Thucydides every time.

For the complete Summary Pack:

http://www.bookrags.com/Thucydides

See, Wretchard, something edifying came out of your post after all...

10/18/2006 10:45:00 AM  
Blogger goesh said...

I can walk away from the ol' PC anytime I want and stay away. I'll do it for 10 minutes to prove I'm right.

10/18/2006 11:12:00 AM  
Blogger Joel said...

At least the rates of newspaper and TV addiction seems to be rapidly abating, thanks to persistent inoculation campaigns by blogs. So, on the whole, we're all healthier in our rates of information consumption addictions.

10/19/2006 12:20:00 AM  

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