PC addict and/or Internet addict ?

[old bob]

Hi everybody,

I remember times (before 1977) when we lived a happy life in our offices, working with typewriters and calculators, communicating with telex, copying with stensils- copiers, even writing with pen and ink.

Today, I couldn

[Tiger]

I am addicted to computers. I know it is not healthy, but I have an addictive personality. I wish I could say otherwise.

[BeaStKid]

I admit, I am addicted to my computer as well as GA.

 

I spend most of my day (if I am free) on the computer, especially on GA. I am proud of it. I cannot live without GA in my life, for this community is the only place besides my stories that offers me a haven, a place that I can be myself. It doesn't judge me, it doesn't scold me, it doesn't demand or have expectations from me, and above all....it listens to my ramblings all day long.

 

I don't know what I'll do without it.

 

 

BeaStKid

 

P.S

Oh yeah...sorry if I went off tangent there. I get too sentimental when the issue of my time being spent on GA/computer is brought up.

[S.L. Lewis]

I love working on the computer and being part of the GA. I can't live without my interenet or my computer.

[Julian Alexander]

I must say I'm addicted to my laptop and the internet. When the power goes out and i can't use the internet, I get very annoyed (Also when my ISP has problems at their home-base and my internet goes down)

 

When i didn't have my laptop from the beginning of this year to around the second week of February, I felt very disconnected from the world.

 

-Jules

[GaryK]

I use my computers/servers to make a living and also to have fun. Even when I goto bed I take a laptop with WiFi with me.

 

I also remember the days of telex, paper/pencil, tape and card readers, US$1000 HDs that held 5MB, computers with 32KB RAM, 1MB of RAM for US$400, frame relay, 300 baud modems with acoustic couplers. I wonder what we'll be laughing about in another 20 years?

[YaP]

lol, i suppose most of us here are in the same boat when it comes to computers and Internet .

As I earn my money programming, i use the computer - and the Internet, all day long. I am lost without my Internet connection - work depends so much on getting information and communicating via email. I do have (at least 1) backup computers in case my "main" PC dies. If my ADSL connection doesn't work, i have an old fashioned modem (better slow than none) to connect to the web. If the phone line is dead as well I can use my cell phone with an UMTS connection to connect to the web.

[AFriendlyFace]

I'm on my computer quite a bit, and about the only things I do on it are internet related in some way. I mean I don't use it for games or anything...well sometimes I play card and board games on it...but that's on the internet

 

Anyway, my computer would be essentially useless to me without the internet. Oh I suppose sometimes I'd turn it on to type things maybe, but I'd use it like a fraction of 1 percent of what I do now.

 

I admit, I am addicted to my computer as well as GA.

 

I spend most of my day (if I am free) on the computer, especially on GA. I am proud of it. I cannot live without GA in my life, for this community is the only place besides my stories that offers me a haven, a place that I can be myself. It doesn't judge me, it doesn't scold me, it doesn't demand or have expectations from me, and above all....it listens to my ramblings all day long.

 

I don't know what I'll do without it.

 

 

BeaStKid

 

P.S

Oh yeah...sorry if I went off tangent there. I get too sentimental when the issue of my time being spent on GA/computer is brought up.

Edited March 18, 2008 by AFriendlyFace

[FrenchCanadian]

It's simple, when I'm at home, I'm always on my computer, when I'm watching tv or movies, I got my laptop close by even if it's just for the IM, waiting for someone to be on.

 

I need my computers for writing, without them, I'm bored, lol

[Tiff]

I'm completely addicted to the computer and the internet. Even if I'm just writing something, I like to have internet access, so I can randomly check my email, IM, or check the GA forums.

 

I use the internet a lot for school- research, communicating with teachers, getting info, writing endless history papers, so it's a necessity for the time being. But even when I'm done with school, the internet and computer would be vital, like an arm!

 

While watching TV or movies, I always have my laptop with me, so everything else becomes background noise. Jeez, in Vegas for three days, I went through major withdrawal and had to use the internet on my cell phone and it was so crappy- small screen, slow, and everything! Next time, I'm bringing it with me and paying for wifi.

 

I think most of us are in the same boat. Especially those of us in the GA community, because we write, we read, and we talk with others- all which need the internet.

[scoopny]

Basically I'm the same as Frenchcanadian, I just have to add that when I'm in class I'm usually online as well.

 

Not only that but I can say that most of my very good friends, both here at school and elsewhere, I met online first.

Edited March 19, 2008 by scoopny

[Tiger]

Basically I'm the same as Frenchcanadian, I just have to add that when I'm in class I'm usually online as well.

My classes are computer-based, so I literally need it for school. That is another reason why it takes me longer sometimes to finish a chapter of a story.

[Tiff]

I admit, I am addicted to my computer as well as GA.

 

I spend most of my day (if I am free) on the computer, especially on GA. I am proud of it. I cannot live without GA in my life, for this community is the only place besides my stories that offers me a haven, a place that I can be myself. It doesn't judge me, it doesn't scold me, it doesn't demand or have expectations from me, and above all....it listens to my ramblings all day long.

 

I don't know what I'll do without it.

 

 

BeaStKid

 

P.S

Oh yeah...sorry if I went off tangent there. I get too sentimental when the issue of my time being spent on GA/computer is brought up.

 

Nothing wrong with being addicted to GA! I think a lot of us are! It's a great place, always something to read or discuss! How could you not be addicted? Even more so for you because it is a safe place and you can escape here and let off some steam or relax. Very understandable.

 

[scoopny]

My classes are computer-based, so I literally need it for school. That is another reason why it takes me longer sometimes to finish a chapter of a story.

 

 

Haha my classes are not online but having the IM open makes it easier to talk to my classmates without the teacher noticing.

[Tarin]

I used to be so addicted to the internet, but I broke my laptop and had to go without it to get it fixed.

Thing is, I never sent it to get repairs. For months, like, 4 or 5.

It felt good. I only ever sent it in because of school, I have an online class this semester and use it for several others.

I got it fixed, and well, I'm not an addict anymore. I spend an hour or two on it before I go to bed every night while watching tv. If I find an interesting thread here, I will check more often.

Edited March 19, 2008 by Tarin

[Tiff]

I used to be so addicted to the internet, but I broke my laptop and had to go without it to get it fixed.

Thing is, I never sent it to get repairs. For months, like, 4 or 5.

It felt good. I only ever sent it in because of school, I have an online class this semester and use it for several others.

I got it fixed, and well, I'm not an addict anymore. I spend an hour or two on it before I go to bed every night while watching tv. If I find an interesting thread here, I will check more often.

[BeaStKid]

Nothing wrong with being addicted to GA! I think a lot of us are! It's a great place, always something to read or discuss! How could you not be addicted? Even more so for you because it is a safe place and you can escape here and let off some steam or relax. Very understandable.

 

Yes Tiff... I completely agree with you...

[Ieshwar]

My Daily Routine (on weekdays)

 

05:45 - Wake up.

06:00- 07:00 : On PC. Mainly for mails and then wondering around.

08:00-12:00 - At work, working only on PC!! For Computer-Aided Designs

12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch

13:00 - 04:45 - Work again on PC

05:30 - 06:30 - PC and internet- looking in forums and all

06:30- 07:00 - Dinner

07: 00 - 08: 00- PC again!

08:00 onwards- normally TV.

 

Around 3 hours of internet. No internet at work. Bastards! 11 hours on PC!

 

Ieshwar

 

P.s When I submit a story/poem, it's worse. I check in in every 5 minutes to look for new reviews!

[BeaStKid]

P.s When I submit a story/poem, it's worse. I check in in every 5 minutes to look for new reviews!

Exactly...

[Benji]

Exactly...

 

 

........Most likely I'm addicted to GA 6:00 am - 5pm, lurking always

[Tiger]

........Most likely I'm addicted to GA 6:00 am - 5pm, lurking always

It is my new addiction. In other news, I broke my habit of Yahoo! Chat.

[GaryK]

It is my new addiction. In other news, I broke my habit of Yahoo! Chat.

Gak. GA is why I reinstalled Trillian...it was the only way to communicate in near real-time with Myr. I'd rather spend my time reading or in the forums cause basically I strongly dislike IM.

 

Does it count towards my addiction if my SOHO-based servers are doing things on the internet even when I'm sleeping? They are, after all, doing what I told them to do. Mostly backups of and maintenance for my live websites.

[JamesSavik]

I think we've gotten fairly glib about the way we throw the word addiction around.

 

Computers are tools- or at least that's the theory. Would we say that a carpenter is addicted to his hammer?

[BeaStKid]

I think we've gotten fairly glib about the way we throw the word addiction around.

 

Computers are tools- or at least that's the theory. Would we say that a carpenter is addicted to his hammer?

No...but then we do say that we are addicted to TV...

[Procyon]

My Daily Routine (on weekdays)

 

05:45 - Wake up.

06:00- 07:00 : On PC. Mainly for mails and then wondering around.

08:00-12:00 - At work, working only on PC!! For Computer-Aided Designs

12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch

13:00 - 04:45 - Work again on PC

05:30 - 06:30 - PC and internet- looking in forums and all

06:30- 07:00 - Dinner

07: 00 - 08: 00- PC again!

08:00 onwards- normally TV.

 

Around 3 hours of internet. No internet at work. Bastards! 11 hours on PC!

 

Ieshwar

 

P.s When I submit a story/poem, it's worse. I check in in every 5 minutes to look for new reviews!

 

Your day is almost exactly like mine! Only I don't really watch TV but am online then as well, lalala. And I can't sign on to forums and such at work either -- so when I'm at work, it doesn't annoy me as much if my computer doesn't work, unless I'm doing something urgent and really need it; at other times I can do something else instead, and that is usually rather nice. At home, however, I hate it when my internet doesn't work.

 

Nice to meet so many other internet addicts! That there's so many of us means we're all normal, right?