I am. I have been an Internet Addict for as long as I can remember.
I feel like I’m researching and reading stuff on the Internet and I’m not really living or doing anything in the real world.
It’s effecting my posture and my neck feels constantly out of place and sore from constantly looking at my phone.
Internet addict…check.
Sex addict…check
Drug addict…check
Work addict…check
Movie addict…check
Music addict…check
Knowledge addict…check
Adrenaline addict…
Party addict… check
Fun addict…double check
I think sometimes im addicted to being an addict.
I have a hard time not researching every known thing in the universe on my phone all day every day. Its bothersome but i cant quit until i get the answer im looking for, which then opens more questions to be answered. Its a horrible cycle. I find myself saying “ok last page then im done”. Then 9 hours later i quit in frustration, i got nothing accomplished that was supposed done over the past 12hrs.
The internet has way too many rabbit holes for me to wondor down. From researching exotic and rare animals to shopping for everything from socks to yachts. (And i can barely afford socks). I love the tech i just wish it wouldnt consume to such a level that it becomes a problem
I think that we all have some sort of internet addiction. It’s just a time we’re living in, a life that couldn’t be imagined without internet…of course if we speak from the first world perspective.
During the times that books and newspapers and pamphlets and broadsides were created and coffee houses were all the rage there were reading addicts. I think @Sarad is right, it’s just a time we’re living in.
Someone said – Our vices are of our times, our virtues are our own.
I’d say gaming counts if it’s on the internet. I don’t know if I’m an addict but I prob spend 90% of my waking hours, besides eating, plugged in one way or another. I guess roku counts too
i love youtube… here… Wikipedia…sacredtexts… sometimes i check out twitch… i don’t play many online games anymore but that once took up vast amounts of my time…
I have been thinking of someday trying to go a certain amount of time without using any technology like computer, phone, and tv but I don’t think I will be able to do it, I am an internet addict and I feel a lot of people are it is something so commonly used these days that people would think its weird if u don’t use the internet