Do you think you have lost your social life?

In my case, I don't think I am affected with that kind of disease. Because I work as a call center agent here in our place and I face the computer for straight 8hours, but when I am off from work, I don't anymore sit in our house and face the computer, but rather, I sleep or go out with friends or play with my cousins, nieces and nephews. Or just simply listen to music and dance a little bit. You know what, even the kind of economy that we have right now, we don't really have to be facing the internet most of the times to look for money or income, BUT the more we need to take care of ourselves and our loved ones because health care is very expensive nowadays and we cannot afford to lose that much money because of the fact that we have not take good care of ourselves. Take time to relax and pray to God, just trust in HIM. Godbless!

Hi Abhii88, ur topics are refreshingly different, so I cant help joining. :-) I dont believe socializing has undergone drastic change. In fact, we have improved. For all that hype about Internet Addiction Disorder, I think people are not realizing the time and resources (especially the environment pollution caused by burning petrol to go "visiting"), that are conserved. U want to call somebody - use cell, or send a detailed mail. Earlier, we used to post, or go in person to deliver the information. Now, it is just an email away. Because of this ease, in fact, we are able to maintain more relations that we used to earlier. And we can share jokes, and nice things as well, which we wouldnt have dreamt off. Just going across and spending an hour with tea doesnt really amount to socializing does it? A person should be around to help, and have a network so that many people can join hands to help. Internet has done that! And what were we doing most of the time anyway, gossiping about this person or that person? Is that worth doing? In good old days, when mechanization was not so much, people didnt have much time to visit each other, and thereafter, the generations that came along with improved machinery, started socializing through visits. Further evolution of the same concept is the Internet. Why object to it, and condemn it? I definitely think Internet has improved my social life.

Hey, Well I am actually not that much of a social person I think, I mean I hardly ever actually talk to anyone, and I am just too shy to talk to my friends. But I don't think that I have lost my social life, the Internet has made it better. Make sure you have a good day, God bless and Happy Lotting!!

Hey, Well when I was younger I wasn't really that sociable either, so as I started to use computers and the Internet more and more, I felt as if I am more relaxed when I am on the computer, than with my friends. Make sure you have a good day, God bless and Happy Lotting!!

Hello friend, I have been a net freak for over two years now and yes, the social life does suffer due to this. It is up to you to strike the right balance and till now, I have managed to do this fairly well. I do go out with friends twice or thrice a week, catch a movie and all, spend time with my relatives and then surf the net as well.

I think i have lost my social life. I often meet my friends. Due to the pressure in jobs and more responsibility, I am not able to concentrate my friends and going party and other places.I usually spend time with internet getting more valuables information which updates me a great extent. I am habit to go write short shorties. I divert all my time to it and published more stories on my own. But in my view, i am losing some kind of social life. If you mingle with the social life, u spend your time and money. This gives having relationship between the friends and have more understanding on it. Many people Now a days had a habit of surfing in the net.

Oh i could not live without my Internet. I would go into withdrawals. My computer stopped working for a while and i was panicking. I had to call my son in tears to loan me his lap top. So, Yes i know i have it. But it is how i make money and how i talk to people i know.

Well I do have internet addiction disorder I suppose but I want to make it productively in making money,friends and etc on the internet. Why would I come out of it? I won't, until I gain money out of it. I normally try my best to learn what is on the internet and profiting it but it doesn't last long as my patience wafers a little to often. I will come out from this disorder when I have become rich or at least become who I wanted to be or after I get what kind of goals that I want from the internet. Until now I still am searching for the elusive dream. Once I have found it, I am going to the mountains and the ocean to enjoy the good life. Happy mylotting to you too

Yes you are right my friend.....we are so busy that we can't give time to family,culture and tradition..thanks

I have lost my social life looooooooooooooooooooooooong before i was hooked on the internet... I have a 14year old son.. I stopped going out since i got pregnant until i had him and took care of him and Ihad been busy everyday since then. now that i spend a lot of time on the computer,i think of it as my social life coz its the only way i get connected to people outside............. but i'm fine wih how things are.

Well, I have definitely lost most of my social life, but it definitely has nothing to do with an internet addiction lol. I used to be addicted to the internet when I was living back at home when I was in school, and anytime I wasnt in school or working, I was glued to the internet until morning, which is nuts! I only get like an hour a day now, which is all right, but kinda sucks at the same time!

Life is become so much hectic. Every one is running as there is a world of competion today. No one has time to take his meals properly. If we see then we find that every one is running after his meals, some for getting success. just because of this hunger for success, for winning this world's competition, no body takes care about some lovable relations, just like parents, freinds, even some times for our children also.Just due to busy and very hectic shedule, we get habitual to live alone and we use to get irritated while small things and in this way situation is created that no body wants to talk to us. But once the time is over, at that time we realize that, we did not get any thing in our life. Today is a world of computer, we do sit on computer for long hours do keep on surfing for a long time. Now these days, this is not the problem of US only but this is the problem of developing countries also. But question is that how can we save our life from this hectic shedule ? If we don't do any thing, how could we live a luxurious life? But while earning the best how can we give some moments in our relations? If we think alone, even still we won't be able to find the answer of this question.

I will admit that before I became addicted to the Internet and spent most of my time online as it was still new to me and I had a lot more to discover online. Fortunately now I do not spend as much time as I used to do a few years ago. I find living with friends, make you want to spent more time outside of your room and socialize with them.

I am going through a divorce and battling for the custody of my four year old son. I am on medication for disturbance due to these. I find that sharing my problems and communicating and interacting with people and friends on the net has made me a happier person. There are other things also that I do. What is required is to list our priorities in life and do accordingly. This I feel is the best way to stay balanced.

I have lost my social life long before I went on the internet. I'm a mother of 2 and been busy with them all these years and I have no time to socialize and meet people to become my offline friends. I don't consider the internet as something that I can't live without. I have no online friends either and am not looking for some. I have a big family and tons of relatives off and online and I don't have to see them often to keep my social life balanced. I like being alone most of the time and I just consider internet as my library to hang out on with my free time...that's all.

I must agree that I am online a lot more than I should be. But I have been trying to leave the house more often so I feel I still can socialize in person so I can still say I have a life. I do not believe you can get addicited to anything and for me I guess anything of a good thing can become a bad thing. Take care and happy mylotting to you.

well, i was always a little reserved so i never had too many friends with whom i used to spend time. using the internet has become a hobby but still i feel it is not an addiction. i don't use internet at the cost of my work. i only use the internet when i have completed my workor when my work requires the use of internet. using internet is not bad but misusing is bad.

Well, I'm fairly sure that I suffer from that, but it's for a good cause. You see, we're trying to supplement our income in any way we possibly can, so I'm striving to earn around $100 a month online to help out with bills and everything, so I use the internet mostly for profit. Every once in a while I like to unwind and play games on it, but not usually. Usually by the time I get done doing "work" on it I don't want to look at a computer again for quite a while! But I'm not really "addicted". I can get off the computer whenever I want or need to and I can go for days without using the computer, etc. I don't NEED the computer in order to be happy or anything, but I do indeed need it in order to make money, so it's kind of a catch-22.

I think its the opposite for me, since having my daughter i am stuck at home a lot so the internet helps me to keep my social life going, i cant catch up with friends without having to drag my baby daughter out, its also a convienence thing, you can talk with your friends online anytime whereas in real life you cant and dont always have the time. I think its a pretty crazy idea about thses addictions to be honest, i spend a lot of time on the net so i dread to think how much they do,

I am in the glorious position of not actually having a social life to lose, therefore I haven't lost one. In fact I would actually say I have gained one by making some amazing friendships over the several years I have been an Internet user. In the past I was an addict to the Internet purely because I was a member of websites I created, and later one where becoming the top ranked person became an obsession so I would spend all my time trying to achieve that goal. All that has changed since the website changed and I couldn't find a new niche, and so now I actually spend more time off-line, though I still don't have (or want) a social life lol Dranz