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"Mark Schneider" <marks@wimsey.com> wrote, in his (or her) infinite
wisdom:

>I will be interviewing prominent US researcher with startling evidence that
>Internet addiction is not a recognized disorder, contrary to many published
>reports.

	G'day Mark!  Nice stories you do.  As for internet addiction, I
personally think that like so many other things, it's just another cop
out for those unwilling to accept responsibility for their own
actions.  Sort of like someone robbing a bank then blaming large debts
for making them do it.

	I've been in debt well over my head (having since recovered) and I
never even contemplated a criminal act.  When I first got IRC and the
internet, I was spending lots of time on it -- ignoring my wife even.
I didn't blame addiction, I blamed myself for letting myself think a
computer, and people half way around the world, were more important
than the woman who loved me.

	I have since (though I didn't do it at that point) deleted anything
and everything to do with IRC from my computer.  I did it not as a way
to break what would have been seen by some as an addiction, but
because I realised that it didn't do anything for me, the people in
the IRC channels I was hanging around in were mostly computer people
on a power trip (yes, being a channel op is a REAL status symbol) or
young guys looking for cybersex every chance they got.  Heh...there
were, of course, guys who posed as girls in order to tease and
frustrate the teen males, but that's another story altogether.

	Sorry to rave on, but saying 'internet addiction" is like calling drug
addiction a "disease", when it's all self inflicted and could have
been avoided in the first place.

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