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Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet
Ant (an Internet junkie) writes "An article from The Register reports one begins gibbering uncontrollably because he/she can't get a fix without internet access after two weeks. That, at least, is according to an 'Internet Deprivation Study' carried out by Yahoo! and advertising outfit OMD.
Participants in the human experiment were deprived of the web for 14 days, and found themselves quickly succumbing to 'withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration and disconnectedness.' The reason for the rapid collapse of their universe is - say the researchers - because 'internet users feel confident, secure and empowered.'"
What about the 5min average slashdot fix?
I'm going to give up the internet cold-turkey, and switch to something healthy, like heroin
Sheesh!
They should've tried it with some of the right-wing American slashdotters. The researchers would've got a shotgun shoved up their nose and told to reconnect the Internet NOW!
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
ooooooo whats that big see through thing
:P
<doctor>we call that a window
<pt>urghhh M$ windows
<dr>no no, this is a REAL window, look no leaks
Bout time some of us took a walk outside I think, go walk in the countryside where we cant even get wireless for our laptops
If at first you DON'T succeed, Skydiving is NOT for YOU!!
Im just using this stupid monitor and keyboard until I can get google embedded directly in my eyeballs. I really rely on that sucker.
I was just doing some MENSA puzzles, thinking "man, these are sooo easy". Then I realised I was just googling the answers.
I dont know what I'd do if I had to think for myself for 14 days.
wanna really see them twitch?
take away their cellphones too.
scott king
"Ask your doctor about Intergain for withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration and disconnectedness during inconvient internet movements. Not to be taken while eating, drinking, breathing, typing, sleeping, driving, upgrading or patching. May cause excessive borrowing of toys from children. May also cause a desire for a girlfriend with a 300 baud modem and an 8 bit computer."
I was going to criticize this article as over-exagerated until I realized that I was reading Slashdot at 3:45am because I was having trouble sleeping. Oh well, what can you do?
one begins gibbering uncontrollably
Are they sure these people didn't have an Internet connection?
What a rotten party, have we run out of beer or something?
I thought this kind of experiments were illegal since World War II
I'm an Webaddict.I didn't see it at first, how it hurt my family and loved ones. I didn't care to think about the people I'd rob to pay my subscription fees to the porn sites. And there's so many porn sites, soon the 7-11 wasn't enough, I had to hit the Shell stations and the Stop 'n Go, one morning I was real desperate and hit up the Krispy Kreme and I even took all the change in the big styrofoam cup, heh... I still can't forget the helpless look on that guys face. I don't know why I did it. Maybe it was because majormellons.com had just become a thing called a port hole or something... 35 brands of big busty broads... I ... I just couldn't help myself or something... yeah... and so much tit, more tit than you'd ever seen before, soon I was at 200 subsrciptions to all these other port holes and I was like the tit god of the frikken universe! All those girls at my finger tips, mpegs, jpeg galleries, live web feeds! All of it Mine MIne MIne!!! I was a real live electronic sex god! Whoooyah muthfukahhh! A sex god!!!! You hear that? A real live electronic sex ... mmmmfhhhhhh ... sex godmmmpthhhhh....
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You're posting, at 3 am. to this story. /. changed to a non-number karma system, if pageviews make them $$$, you probably bought the new server which you constantly stress.
You have over 2200 posts.
You mod your pals +5 Funny and -1 Troll. In real life.
You constantly Profit! from ???
You can imagine a beowulf cluster of sandwitches.
You wonder if linux can run on your girlfreind.
You snicker at the last one, because you don't know any girls.
You can spot a goatse link from a mile away.
You are no longer shocked by goatse.
You still can't figure out why
You never get mod points.
You know all my posts are hilarious.
Haha, chump! I got to see the magnificent landscapes by clicking that link, and I didn't have to move one foot!
How can they conduct such cruel experiments?!
They want to ban cloning humans, they protest nuclear technology development, yet they allow such inhuman monstrosities to happen! I'm shocked and disgusted!
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
What you saw were only 2MPixel shots. :)
What I got was a 4pi steradian immersion as well as the ultimate oxygen fix
Trolling using another account since 2005.
"internet users feel confident,secure and empowered"
Hmmm, I always wondered why my voice has taken on a booming quality and how instead of sticking to the shadows when walking, I now stride confidentally down the street waving at everyone I meet.
And that's just when I'm online !
I always knew this internet thingy was good for you and now I have my proof !
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
All of you people are so interesting.
Game... blouses.
Seriously, the withdrawal is a bitch.
I tried to quit the Internet "cold turkey", but went right back on the wagon after two days of seeing dead trolls crawling around the ceiling.
Maybe I should have tried your heroin idea.
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I think I'd rather be a chronic internet addict than sat in front of the box watching crap reality TV shows all the time.
Please, plug me back into the collective - I feel alone, empty, when away from it...
Lurking in the desert
You can do both with a TV tuner card.
My words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Who needs human contact anyway? Humans are SO out this season.
The real future is robots, sex robots in particular. With one of those I could avoid all human contact and still visit Slashdot regularly while being "serviced".
Of course, when I got back home, my PC was grumpy and had several hundred non-spam emails to hand me, mixed in with spam about how I could win free trips to Hawaii.
Bill Stewart
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Yeah, you should stop doing that.
It's freaking the homeless people out.
Pffft... they think they've cut me off, and that I've gone clean... What they don't know is, I snuck a Blackberry in by hiding it up my ass and I'm using it to get Slashdot! Gotta get my fix, you know...
Thank god for wireless, otherwise : )
Heh, I watched Big Brother UK from the states thanks to a kind usenet poster. Ended up getting addicted to that show. Would check in every 12 hours or so to get my fix. So I get to be both. Chicken.... *shudder*
stuff
At the bottom of the
I've got a web-site that is beginning to show promise as a way to get a decent amount of residual income. The sections that bring in the most revenue are the sections I havn't touched in months. So it's not something I must do constantly.
Yeah, but are you sure running a porn website with photos of yourself naked in various poses is in your long term interest?
Anyway, I think it's bad that you're getting lazy like that, so I've ripped all the images from your website and posted them to Usenet.
Yep; I'm sorry, you're going to have to take another set of photos involving "Big" Steve and a tube of KY Jelly.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
I think I'd rather be a chronic internet addict than sat in front of the box watching crap reality TV shows all the time.
Oh, you're just saying that because you feel confident, secure, and empowered.
I wonder....
If Slashdot were down for 2 weeks, could you measure the resulting increased productivity's impact on national GDP?
Democrats for Bush! Do the right thing!
Hiking in the mountains is a good candidate
My country (NL) does not have any mountains you incensitive clod!!
maybe it's the withdrawl of vast amounts of pornography they're reacting to.
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
Yah, you'll never see a nerd lusting over a woman's boobs, unless of course she is in a Star Trek episode.
The reason for the rapid collapse of their universe is - say the researchers - because 'internet users feel confident, secure and empowered.'
When they're on it, so do people using meth.
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
Doctor: "Timmy, you've been offline for 2 days and 3 hours. How do you feel?
".... omfg 14 new IE h0les by now... must linux troll..."
That's BS. I could quit anytime...I swear.
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