Internet Addiction?
By Barry Ritholtz - June 13th, 2010, 3:30PM
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
June 11th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
I’ve been abusing since 92. I need help. Is there a 12-step program? lol
June 13th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
One person online for 3 million years. Lucky bastard.
If only I did not have to sleep…
June 13th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
That’s like saying our ancestors were addicted to being outside.
June 13th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
good one .. think I’m there .. its all your fault for being so beaver dam informative
“You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bi+ch! I wish I knew how to quit you.”
:-)
June 13th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
oh – ps – this gotta open the linky thread to get to post in here – another good one
June 25th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Some thoughts on Internet Addiction are cultural; baby boomers often think their kids are addicted when they may be simply engaged in healthy use. Crossing the cultural lines between the generations is critical to understanding and treating Internet Addiction. Psychologist Dr. Ofer Zur and I discuss this, as the digital native and digital immigrant that we are, here: http://www.zurinstitute.com/internetaddiction.html
Therapists may also be interested in the online CEU course on the subject of the positive use of gaming and Internet: http://www.zurinstitute.com/internet_and_gaming_course.html
Like any tool, the Internet and gaming can be used for ill or for good. How we use it is up to us, as is the responsibility to teach our kids to neither fear nor succumb to the Internet.