Re:More to do with the definition of "Addict"
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Your arguement is thought out very well with good supporting evidence, however the point you only touched on, and actually is where the real problem lies, is the thin line that exists between addiction and obession.
"But it doesn't have to be an obsession. It can simply be a habit. "
Obession with the internet and it's infinite number of interesting facets can happen and is a bad thing. A simple addiction, fetish, 'hankering', or whatever you want to call it is fine and can actually be very beneficial. The people who terminate their existing hobbies, and cut off ties to friends are the primary reason for these studies, not the people who maintain their family, friends, and hobbies while being addicted to their e-mail.
People do obsess-
ob-ses-sion (uhb sesh'uhn) n. 1.the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
and in an effort to prevent it, or at least make it a controllable addiction, we need to study it and understand it. But you are correct in pointing out that people who are addicted to the internet should not be labelled unjustly merely to give people the ability to make what they are doing 'wrong' in their eyes.
I think you are suffering from a little bit of tunnel vision yourself. You can talk about the number of people running NT/Win9X, or MS software until you are blue in the face, but it doesn't prove anything. Linux can handle any high traffic internet site better than MS could ever imagine.
In all my interactions with people who call themselves "Web-Developers" (HA!) most of them couldn't develop themselves out of box, and those are the ones that need NT. Sadly most e-business is started by people who want to get rich quick and don't care about computers whatsoever. It's a sad time in society when a software is rated only for the number of idiots who cling to it because they don't/can't learn how to do it better.
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Your arguement is thought out very well with good supporting evidence, however the point you only touched on, and actually is where the real problem lies, is the thin line that exists between addiction and obession.
"But it doesn't have to be an obsession. It can simply be a habit. "
Obession with the internet and it's infinite number of interesting facets can happen and is a bad thing. A simple addiction, fetish, 'hankering', or whatever you want to call it is fine and can actually be very beneficial. The people who terminate their existing hobbies, and cut off ties to friends are the primary reason for these studies, not the people who maintain their family, friends, and hobbies while being addicted to their e-mail.
People do obsess-
ob-ses-sion (uhb sesh'uhn) n.
1.the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
and in an effort to prevent it, or at least make it a controllable addiction, we need to study it and understand it. But you are correct in pointing out that people who are addicted to the internet should not be labelled unjustly merely to give people the ability to make what they are doing 'wrong' in their eyes.
I think you are suffering from a little bit of tunnel vision yourself. You can talk about the number of people running NT/Win9X, or MS software until you are blue in the face, but it doesn't prove anything. Linux can handle any high traffic internet site better than MS could ever imagine.
In all my interactions with people who call themselves "Web-Developers" (HA!) most of them couldn't develop themselves out of box, and those are the ones that need NT. Sadly most e-business is started by people who want to get rich quick and don't care about computers whatsoever. It's a sad time in society when a software is rated only for the number of idiots who cling to it because they don't/can't learn how to do it better.