US full of Internet addicts: study

Breitbart.com ^ | 10/17/06

[gb63]

"run keyboards thru the dish machine"
You can also run the CPU unit thru. It will clean your Windows really good!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I am sure you have met alot of nice people online, but your posts makes me think of a FReeper who's tagline is 'The internet is a great place for grown up children...where else could you have thousands of imaginary FRiends?'

[TomGuy]

I can kill 30 hours in an afternoon when I'm using about fifteen windows at a time.

Exactly!

2 different tabbed browsers open, each with at least 2-5 tabs. Talk radio stream*S* -- one for left ear, one for right ear. TV on with news in the background. TVPC card on CSPAN. On a slow day.

[rlmorel]

I don't know about running it through a dishwasher, but I do know that you can completely rinse a keyboard in distilled water and give it enough time to dry and it will work fine.

There is a good reason water is called "the universal solvent"...

[verum ago]

wow... I was guessing this thread would get about 10 replies... guess the study is right!

[goodnesswins]

I've found if I don't turn off my PC it plays games of its own during the night....

[streetpreacher]

Don't change the subject Grizzled. This is not about kinoxi. This is about you. How does Grizzled's hostility toward your parents make you feel kinoxi?

[GOP Poet]

"Well, it all started when I was very young. I'd always felt different, you know, like I didn't belong . . . then I found Free Republic. My first post was so easy. Some guys post just pissed me off a bit, you know, and I had to set him straight. Well three years later, I eat most my meals in front of the monitor . . . " :-)

Hey if we are addicts and can't converse on-line this only means one thing. Local community Freepers getting together face to face for meetings, perfect. And when we travel just like AA we vistit other fellow Freepers in on-line recovery. One way or the other it just means more Freepers. Can't go wrong there.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Tom, we might have to do an intervention in your case...

[rlmorel]

Oh, come now. What did you expect?

There are MILLIONS of us out there screaming: "WE'RE NOT ADDICTED! WE'RE NOT! Well, maybe just a little. Maybe just the wart..."

[supercat]

Just got rid of TV/cable entirely. Video entertainment now is either DVDs (suddenly I have time to actually watch the "special features") or Internet (mostly chat boards and streaming video).

I watch the Simpsons on Fox. That's about it. For some reason, my VHF receiption is almost useless, especially on the lower channels, so I couldn't watch 60 Minutes last Sunday (which otherwise I would have, for the first time in ages).

[REDWOOD99]

You don't live in Carson City do you? I'm travelling there overnight tomorrow and need a place to stay.

[TomGuy]

I tried to turn my off one time, and it snapped and growled at me.

[FreedomPoster]

I can quit any time. Really I can.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

That was just the mother board...I know because, at times, I am a bored mother...

[blam]

"30 hours? are they kidding?"

Light-weights!

Internet like I used to drink...

[kinoxi]

One of us has serious parental issues. I try to sympathize.

[MonicaG]

I like that tagline! But I know you're all real people, and I appreciate the knowledge, experience, analysis, humor, skepticism, diff perspectives, great book recommendations, history, industry-specific details, military facts, prayer requests, etc., that FReepers share. And the Photoshopping cracks me UP!

I also appreciate the tone of FR, too; sometimes arguments flare up here and there but mostly, respectful discussions without very much profanity or rudeness.

Thanks, everyone!

[YdontUleaveLibs]

The internet is way better than TV at least message boards are interactive. TV you just sit there like a lump getting indoctrinated. Reminds me I have to look some stuff up on Bachman.

[myprecious]

addiction is a disease

Let's have it declared a disability. It interferes with my ability to work. Does anyone have a link to one of those Social Security Attorney's?