moksha wrote:Didn't know much about this subject so I turned to the DSM-VI to find out some of the signs, as well as the features of advanced internet addiction.
Signs
Message board posting Online games Tweeting Online porn Online movies and TV Skype Facebook Youtube
Those signs are pretty much common sense, but what surprised me were some of the features of advanced addiction.
Keeping tabs on the number of Jersey Girl posts Whining about leftists or Trump Reading Sic-et-Non
If you know anyone with these advanced features you might consider some form of intervention, such as deep cave therapy, in order to help them.
Edited due to myopia.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
moksha wrote:If you know anyone with these advanced features you might consider some form of intervention, such as deep cave therapy, in order to help them.
I would be willing to do deep cave therapy, as long as you can run a wireless repeater to the back of the cave. If I can get 4 bars it's all good....
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land