Americans Giving Up Social Life for the Web

Stony Stevenson writes "A survey into how the Web affects American adults has found that surfing the net has become an obsession for many, with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web. The survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would feel OK without going on the Web and found that 15 percent said just a day or less, 21 percent said a couple of days and another 19 percent said a few days. It also found that 20 percent said they spend less time having sex because they are online."

Comments

Re:can go a week or more.

[XenoPhage]

Folks are willing to argue that the job *is* the problem. I beg to differ. I'm afflicted with kids. Oh, come on.. 1, you're posting on slashdot. 2, you're online. Therefore you don't have, nor have ever had, sex, thus you cannot have children.

Regardless of my employment situation, there is no way in hell I could just disappear into the woods for half a year. Raising these little monkeys is a huge undertaking (which nobody warned me about way back when.) Oh.. Monkeys.. Well, I guess that could be.. I suppose online slashdotters can have pets, right?