I came across this article which is based on only a very small series. Thought you would find it interesting. Please read same and comment on it if you like.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000207/hl/bha_27.html
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Guilty as charged. 
“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day… Set a man on fire and he’s warm for a lifetime.”
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(doing my best Ricky Ricardo voice)
If I think this post is directed at me, does that mean I’m addicted?
- Sue
It doesn’t fit my MO doc, but I have a friend who…
I think the polite thing to do is just leave my personality disorders out of this.
There is a thread in MPSIMS titled, “What are you wearing?”, IIRC. In addition to wanting to know how people dressed, the OP inquired where people were, and to describe their surroundings. I was very surprised at the number of responses from people who were posting from work. I suppose there is downtime in any occupation (in fact, I’m posting now before I go to my next appointment), but there seems to be cause for concern.
Not to be judgmental, but as a bit of cautionary advice, shouldn’t we be more circumspect regarding the use of the internet on office computers? (to set the record straight and avoid some flames, I’m posting from home, and while my work day has, indeed,started, the nature of my work allows the luxury of personal time such as this) I just wonder if there will be stories of spates of firings for surfing the web and reading message boards on company time.
This might help explain why the Japanese are kicking our butts.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
The Japanese economy has just slipped back into recession after only two quarters of positive economic growth. The Japanese economy has been mired in red ink for well over three years, while the U.S. has enjoyed the longest period of uninterrupted economic expansion (and low inflation, to boot) in history (109 months). Who’s kicking whose butt?
I can quit anytime I want to!
OK, Nick, it was a joke.
A joke.
Get it?
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
Man, that’s kinda scary. I don’t think I spend 27 hours a week, but I gotta be getting close.
That sample is way too small to be significant. I don’t have any of those other compulsive or psychological problems, but I’m on this machine almost constantly.
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Seems to me that when everyone is falls outside the constraints of what is considered ‘normal’, then it’s time to upgrade the definition of what ‘normal’ is. You can’t have a bell curve where 90% of the population is skewed to the left or the right.
I guess anyone who watches TV over 24 hours a week is considered a compulsive TV viewer. I watch TV while sitting in front of the computer, so I’d really screw up the survey.
This sig not Y2K compliant. Happy 1900.
The OP said the series was very small but it still leaves habituated or addicted computer users without personality defects.
I, too, spend a lot of time on the computer and have no compulsive or psychological problems. I could go on but it started to rain and I’ve got to run out and water the lawn.
You can catch more flies with a flyswatter than with honey and/or vinegar
This is nothing new. People have been getting addicted to computers ever since one of the directors on the manhattan project was replaced because he spent too much time playing neat tricks with the IBM mechanical calculators.
A result of shrinks trying to drum up business. . .like lawyers pushing intellectual property to the hilt? All these camp-followers of the technocrowd. 
Probably egged on by the computer illiterate, Luddites, etc. . .to put them up closer to the top of the bell-shaped curve.
tbea925:
And while you watch the TV and peck at the keyboard, you hold a conversation on your cell phone. . .and the whole works is going down the freeway at 90 mph, right? Your posts are coming in with a Doppler shift.
MajorMD:
No, probably means it’s giving you ideas about changing your specialty to psychiatry.
Ray (All of this is exactly what 9 out 10 computers claim is normal.)
What the Feb. 21 Time Magazine says about this.
Ray (Easy as logging off a roll.)