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?”
I like that the “Center for Internet Addiction Recovery” has this on their home page
Podcast
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Blogger
Check out our new Recovery Blog
Referral Directory
Find valuable resources in our online bookstore
Email this page to a friend
Join our mailing list
Yeah that’s all REALLY helping me get offline!
i am addicted. i don’t need to take a test.
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.
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)
10. How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of the Internet?
xpost!
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!
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!
I used to be, for a while. Now I’m far less bothered about it.
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.
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.
Haha I’d already read that and stole Captain Purple Items for my screen name!
xpost
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.
numbahs! I want to see if my number is higher or lower than the average ilxor.
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?
Oh shit, forgot to add that. 35.
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. :-(
yeah probably most people who think they’re addicted to the internet are just addicted to avoiding work.
xxpost, yeah me too, but what you going to do. It’s my ADHD tendencies.
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!”
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i got to about question 10 and realised that I’d answered all questions so far with 1.rarely. not addicted.
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.
Yup
52. Sigh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
37/average BUT I KNOW DIFFERENT and that is why I am giving up the internet (on 1st March).
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.
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.
spoken like a true addict. ;)
I could use some new ennablers tho
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!
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!
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.
in other word, zora otm.
42.
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.
if you do all those things exclusively within your toilet people are going to think you’re pretty weird.
28.
I was looking for the “never” button too. “Soothing thoughts of the Internet”, what the fuck?!
I scored 29 points!
There should be 10 point bonus for doing the test.
theres a good article/story in this months harpers about this
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.
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.
Even better... I got 50 points, and it gave me the 20–49 write-up. Worst coded test ever.
If anyone wants to make a pile of money, write a book on curbing this addiction and it will be a best-seller.
Make sure to have a constantly updated website and blog to go with it.
Or should have said “Or write more than one book” under that.
Not sure #279,793 is a bestseller but still...