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Are you addicted?

This online test says I'm not. I think it's wrong.

I think I should try to spend less time online. My home connection was down for a full week and when we got it fixed my wife said "Are you pleased to have your other arm back?"

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that the "Center for Internet Addiction Recovery" has this on their home page

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Yeah that's all REALLY helping me get offline!

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i am addicted. i don't need to take a test.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4563437.html

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

10. How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of the Internet?

Oh, sweet, sweet internet...

I couldn't even be bothered finishing the test because I might have missed something interesting on ILX or in my email.

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it a bad thing? What effect does it have on the rest of your life?

(these are open questions, not aimed directly at you nrq)

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

10. How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of the Internet?

xpost!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I couldn't even be bothered finishing the test because I might have missed something interesting on ILX or in my email.
-- in the case of masonic attack (kateotheremai...), February 19th, 2007 4:20 PM. (later)

Me as well too!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure I've taken this test before. results were probably different then but now:

29
You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.

I almost never go on-line at home anymore unless it's for real work or looking up needed info. almost never do social email.

but the net is indeed invaluable for daily living. all in person and paper transactions must die!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to be, for a while. Now I'm far less bothered about it.

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i might have a better work life without the internet -- in fact, i'm sure of it. it doesn't harm the rest of my life though.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

more addiction

― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Your score: 42

You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.

i think it's trying to say that i'm not addicted, just bored.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha I'd already read that and stole Captain Purple Items for my screen name!

xpost

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

numbahs! I want to see if my number is higher or lower than the average ilxor.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I went back and took the test - 60. Starting to be worrying. Dude, I'm obsessive about everything I like, why should the interweb be any different?

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit, forgot to add that. 35.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I almost never go on-line at home anymore unless it's for real work or looking up needed info. almost never do social email.

which means i post too much at work. :-(

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I got 45.

http://mednews.stanford.edu/releases/2006/october/internet.html

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah probably most people who think they're addicted to the internet are just addicted to avoiding work.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost, yeah me too, but what you going to do. It's my ADHD tendencies.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

8.7 percent attempted to conceal non-essential Internet use from family, friends and employers

I can understand not telling your employer you've been monging but hiding it from your family?

"I watched TV all day! I wasn't near ILX!"

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Ste (fuzzy), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i got to about question 10 and realised that I'd answered all questions so far with 1.rarely. not addicted.

― Ste (fuzzy), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

serious question: has anyone else considered leaving email/login passwords with other essential info in case of your death? I'd want someone to be able to go online and "clean up my affairs", what there are of them at least.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

52. Sigh.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

What bothers me most about that survey is that the boxes are checkboxes rather than radio buttons, so you can give more than one mutually exclusive response to each question. It then uses the lowest score. This is SHODDY.

So, what I learn from it is that I am an average internet user, but a HTML form pedant. These two are mutually also mutually exclusive.

― caek (caek), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup (xxpost)

There wouldn't be much to it -- an ILE post and a mail to the Frank's mailing list. But if Jude and I were to both die at the same time, nobody would know to do it. I really should make out my will, and include that info in a note to Sarah.

― Bellicose Veins (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose when answering the survey, I was seeing "the internet" as "ILX" which colours my answers slightly, as ILX is obviously something which comprises a lot more than mere online activity for me.

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i answered a few questions but didn't like the fact that there wasn't a 'never' option which i was wanting for more and more of the answers so i didn't finish it. i am a bit addicted though.

― emsk ( emsk ), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

37/average BUT I KNOW DIFFERENT and that is why I am giving up the internet (on 1st March).

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I too was disgruntled at the lack of 'never'. And describing the internet as soothing made me roffle muchly. I got 29.

I don't really understand the concept of internet addiction. Internet and Real Life = same thing these days. I do everything online; work, play, socialise. It's not inherently more addictive than reading or shopping or watching television, let alone drinking or chocolate or sex. People be making a big Luddite fuss about new thing.

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM.

to hell w/this guilt-inducing sub-12step crap. the internet is a supplement to a rich real life, not a substitute. of course it's a convenient tool to blame yr pre-existing personality issues on.

― mark coleman (lovebug ), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

spoken like a true addict. ;)

― Stuck in ILX Limbo (Roz), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I could use some new ennablers tho

― mark coleman (lovebug ), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

this test is funny!

if you're someone who is on the internet 24 hours a day, you actually score very low on this test because of the way the questions are asked!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

e.g.
1. How often do you find that you stay on-line longer than you intended?

i always intend to be on line for hours on end, so.. never!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

indeed.

Also, the questions are worded as if the internet is a single THING, instead of an interactive environment where you can read, work, play games, meet real life friends, make new friends, check out boobs, on and on. None of those activities are unbalanced in and of themselves.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

in other word, zora otm.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Monday, 19 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

42.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

if you do all those things exclusively within your toilet people are going to think you're pretty weird.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

28.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I was looking for the "never" button too. "Soothing thoughts of the Internet", what the fuck?!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I scored 29 points!

There should be 10 point bonus for doing the test.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

theres a good article/story in this months harpers about this

― 69 (pete), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM. I hate when people misuse radio vs checks. If I make it to the end of this stupid quiz, though, I'll probably be very addicted indeed.

― Will M. (Will M.), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Even better... I got 50 points, and it gave me the 20-49 write-up. Worst coded test ever.

― Will M. (Will M.), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

If anyone wants to make a pile of money, write a book on curbing this addiction and it will be a best-seller.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Make sure to have a constantly updated website and blog to go with it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Caught-Net-Recognize-Addiction-Sure-fire/dp/0471191590/sr=8-5/qid=1171915681/ref=sr_1_5/026-4167992-5864458?ie=UTF8&s=books

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Or should have said "Or write more than one book" under that.

Not sure #279,793 is a bestseller but still...

― Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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