I've smoked three cigarettes in my life and I don't do drugs. Drinking happens every once in awhile. I exercise relatively minimally and I don't watch hours and hours of television everyday. I fear, however, that I am addicted to the Internet. Of course, my increasing amount of time spent on this delightful time waster could be due to the fact that it gets dark around 5:30 and it is bitter cold out, or that I get bored easily and the limitless options of the Internet fuel my need to do something new every 15 minutes, but I think it is mostly something else. Myself, and the rest of the connected society have gotten so used to having the Internet, that it has become a terrible habit for a lot of us. Have some free time? Let's go look up epic rock and roll deaths. It'll only take five minutes...
And don't get me started on the monstrosity that is Facebook. I try my very best to not get sucked in. I do. But sometimes, I take a glance as to what other people are up to and I can't stop. I want to stop, believe me, but for some reason, it is difficult. Maybe the big cheeses' at Facebook Corporate use a method of mind control on the people who log in?? The thing is that 99.9% of what is posted on Facebook is useless, boring information. So why can't we help but see what BobbyJo is up to this afternoon? I wish I had an answer and some stronger willpower to delete my page and know that everything will be alright.
I feel we are a society of watchers as opposed to doers. We watch someone else do something on YouTube instead of going out and doing it ourselves. We watch movies were people seem to have exciting lives instead of going out and making our own excitement. Are there IA meetings anywhere near here?