Computer addiction

[davehc]

OMG. Last Friday we had a horrendous storm through the country where I dwell. The aftermath was chaos in the electrical/electronic sector. I lost the internet connection (with many others) and my telephone. Only yesterday did I get a rigged partial restore, with my connection only at half speed. I realised, over that 5 day period, how compulsive my reliance on using the internet. I was wandering around , wondering how to fill the day! What a pathetic attitude!!! - and I don't even play internet games!!

 

[Ian]

Haha, I'm sure that many of us will admit to the very same thing! We moved house a few weeks ago and I had to go without internet access for about 10 days (although my phone did work for just about 15 mins browsing a day).

I hope not too much damage was done during the storm. There's apparently going to be a month's worth of rain falling in some areas of the UK today - it feels like summer has just disappeared.

 

[Digerati]

I don't know if I would call it an addiction, but it sure is a dependency. The Internet has been a part of my daily life since the early 80's when I was lucky enough to be in the US military supporting secure network communications (then part of ARPANET).

It is a daily "routine" to spend a couple (3, 4?) hours on my computer, and when that routine is disrupted, it is like I am in some sort of a daze until those hours have passed and my internal clock resets on to something else - if that makes sense.

So maybe addiction is right - though anxiety and confusion rather than pain and despair is felt.

 

[davehc]

As someone remarked on another forum. When it happened to him, he discovered that there were actually real people outside and he was in great danger of interacting with them - lol.

 

[Digerati]

and he was in great danger of interacting with them - lol.

lol That really did have me laughing out loud!