What? Hey! Hey! Hey! Wait a minute, now! Let’s not get personal.
What kind of idea is that? What authority figure has a site comparing internet addiction to exercise addiction?
Don’t even bring up the concept of spending unbalanced amount of time doing sedentary vs active tasks. That gets into personal values and choices, responsibility to self and latent guilt trips. Nice thing about internet, no one gets to see the poster’s waistline.
Which is better, physical fitness or mental stimulation from internet? Which activity promotes the better over-all condition of the participant? Forget my own condition and well-being, more important to enlighten the readers of the internet.
Balance is a factor. Exercise and nutrition, mental stimulation, family participation, involvement with community and country, spirituality, rounded life style.
Bottom line: are you spending enough time on the internet? Want to debate that with an expert?
Well, if you’re actually comparing two compulsive activities, it’s impossible to say which is “better”. Someone who may be “addicted” to the Internet might use it as an escape and ignore family, work, and personal responsibilities. Someone with an exercise “addiction” may do the same. Neither activity is healthy for the individual if it causes them trouble in their daily life.
Zette
PS- for what it’s worth, it may help when posting a Great Debate to cite some resources that relate to your question, try to stick to a single point, and form an actual argument. If you are looking for opinions on which is worse, an Internet addiction or an exercise addiction, you may get better responses in IMHO, where citation is not as important and people can just kind of toss ideas around.
Good Thread. By coincidence I just contacted someone that I graduated from highschool with, who has a residential alcohol and drug abuse center where I am located. My reason for contacting him was to see if he was interested in an experiment to determine if alcohol and drug addicts could change addictons. The two new addictions I am proposng is the internet and exercise.
Your behavior (internet) vs your plans (exercise) would imply your position to be that internet is better.
It could be possible that if one takes the effort to habituate themselves to an exercise plan, it would take more priority. Then one may plan to go home to post stuff on this site and then wind doing exercise. Any excuse to avoid internet.
I read about a person once who enjoyed exercise more than internet, but cannot retrieve the site.
