Life without internet. Am I an internet addict?

Me too. I can't leave internet either. My mother says who prevent me from internet will be my enemy, maybe that's the truth. I find many things to do on the internet and much less things without internet. Maybe something wrong with me.

I've been using internet for year now since I was in high school and It's a great tool for everyone not only students.It's another way of communication with people from distant places. If there will be no internet in the next years then we are doomed.

I am the same. I am completely dependant on technology. Even checking my e-mails takes priority sometimes over welcoming my partner home after a long day at work. I have never heard of rehab for it. You could just try your own though. PULL THE PLUG! I dare you! I dont think you'll make it more than 48 hours if you're anything like me lol :)

It is not about internet addiction, it becomes necessity of life without this very less things are there, internet is lot to me by many reasons. you get to know the latest and updated information , you can be in touch with lots of poeples, you can socialize yourself, you can make your dream true. it is more than what you think and you, gives you challenge to fight with world.

I too would be completely lost without the internet.I dont even watch tv much anymore cause Im always online.I know im addicted but figure there is alot worse things I could be addictted to right.

hahahah..i think many of us have same problem here...for me ,i can spend like 3 day nonstop in front of my pc...online,e-mailing,gaming etc...

I can't even think about my life without the internet. I do everything from my computer. Pay bills, shopping, making money, entertainment, communicating, and a lot more. Getting information is so easy that I can't imagine me without internet. My son need something for school, internet, a new recipe for a spacial dinner, internet. Well you get the point internet is part of my life, totally addicted too.

This too is an addiction.As you are aware of it,you should find ways to get out of it too.Stop depending on internet for all the things and go out door for some simple tasks at the least.You should interact with real life people too.Otherwise you will be forgotten.

I also think that if i loss my internet connection but i bet it's just a thought. There's nothing serious that'll happen to me. It won't affect my understanding of my life and just how important it is compared to some gadget.

i think i m not that much addict to net though i use net for several hours a day but when sometimes my net doesn't work or my laptop has some problem then i'd no problem without net....i think u should you should indulge yourself in some other activity ....just spend some more time with your friends and family this will really help you in getting out of this addiction.....

Same here. I couldn't live a day without even using my laptop plus the internet. and i think i'm too addicted to it already that i act crazy when sometimes there's a problem with the connection or i would be really irritated when the connection is slow. i just couldn't think that i could go a day without checking all my accounts in the internet.

i feel the same... since i just stay home wife first thing when i wake up.. ill turn on my pc and router then i checked my phone. before i even go to fix myself up... i found it weird too.. i think... this generation doesnt know how to live without technology...

hi bulastika. i havent encountered such addiction. but all i know is that, "too much of something is bad enough" (from: spice girls song...hahahha) but yeah, thats true. i just hope you wont go to that point of losing your mind over no internet connection. maybe you should try to go out with your friends or be busy with something. or perhaps you could look for a job, that would be nice. but if its really that worse,(which im hoping it wont be) you should try to have a check-up with psychologist or something for early detection of any inclination to mental problems. anyways, have a nice day.^_^

Its perfectly normal for people to be 'addicted to the internet' I mean if you talk to people you will probably find that you are not the only one that is spending that much time on the internet. We all do it!

My laptop has become sort of my appendage. I have an Internet-based job. I make a living on the Internet. But no, I don't think I'd lose my mind if I lose my laptop and my Internet connection. Hey, you should not be too obsessed with the Internet. Try staying away from your laptop for a day. There is more to life than being online all the time.

hi there. don't go overboard and think that you are addicted to such. however, if you go to the extremes of inflicting harm to yourself just because such hobby is taken from you, then you have a condition. it also depends on what you do over the net. if you are hooked on video games, then there could be potentials that you will be addicted. have you been losing and abandoning other functions just to go over the net? say for example, did you lose your job because of it? do you have time still for family and friends? did your habits change because of it? if your answer is no,then i guess you are still ok. you have to understand that if this hobby starts changing you and your relationship towards others, work and your old self, then you might be already addicted. you can help yourself. you have to remember that these things should be controlled...not you being controlled by them. there are times that i feel guilty spending too much time in front of the pc and just surfing unlimitedly. and when i feel the guilt, i take a break and get back to the real world. ;-)

No, I'm sorry to say, I don't think there's a rehab for internet addiction, lol. At least I've never heard of one, lol. I've had this computer for a year and 3 or 4 months now and I think I'm addicted to the internet, too. I'm on it just about everyday. I was on it everyday when I had my first computer, too. I think the internet has been a blessing in a lot of ways. I don't know how we ever made out without it.

Oh! Thats true. If I do not come online one day, I would feel something missing in LIFE. I was also very much addicted to internet. Hope there are many people of the same case.

It's not good that you're ready to lose everything except the laptop and the internet. I haven't heard about a word that describes a person that is addicted to the internet, but I'm 98% sure that there is one, because you're not the first person with such addiction. 1 or 2 years ago I read in the newspaper about a man, who has been married with 2 children and for 2 years becomes so dependent of the internet that in the end he has been spending 12+ hours per day on it. What was happening around him? He left his work and the arguments with his wife began... In the end, she did not stand and went in the court to try to divorce with him. And the judge decides to divorce them and to forbid the man to have any access to the internet for some time plus something... That's what I remember I think you should notice something from that. My opinion is if you only stay on the computer all the day everyday, to try slowly to reduce the time in front of the screen and to try to make other helpful things that surround you all the time, but you can't see them because of the addiction. Try to do something different, it should not be something very special, just to do not be in front of a screen. Put some lines, put a target and follow it to the end, but don't overdo. I think that in the end you will can divide with your laptop, but it's not necessary to be forever. Good luck and do something on this subject, because it can become a bigger problem.

come on guys!take it to moderate mode.im not an internet addict.i can simply leave it not doing any surfing activity for some time.i always keep in my mind that if i can live without it even before i knew about computer then i still can live without it as well.yet before and after are not the same thing huh?:)