Addiction to technology is becoming the fastest growing Illness of the 21st century

[kiwi_2005]

What the title says got me thinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hfK3RQs2g&feature=related

This wow vid is an example of gaming addiction this kid has & the stoopid mother who cries yet all she has to do is PULL THE INTERNET PLUG!!:roll: or disable his wow account and dont pay the monthly fees!

The commenter says 'Addiction to technology is becoming the fastest growing Illness of the 21st century' - its no different than a person hooked on ciggarettes or heroin.

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:

Yeah addiction to Technology on a whole as an illness is just overrated. Computer gaming though, would i be pushing it by including txt messaging as well. My sons and friends are glued to their PC's/Consoles, its the same everywhere with young ppl, im too pretty much addicted to gaming to be honest and i have no intention of giving it up for good.

No matter whether you play games, visit forums, or chat all day on msn if you can't put it down and walk away from it for a few weeks/months without another thought then your more than likely addicted.:hmm:

[Torplexed]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:


I know what you mean. I used to have a whole host of traditional art tools like markers, paints, airbrushes, etc. All retired in favor of faster and cleaner digital doo-dads. Pretty much just the pencils and layout paper left these days. Can't imagine ever going back to the old cardboard counter wargames or minatures either. They just gather dust. However, the computer hasn't replaced books yet though. Amazon can keep their Kindle. :p

[Rotary Crewman]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:

Playing on my Xbox 360 :doh:

Oh sorry, thats not what you meant! I suppose I would probably watch more TV, read books, try and release my creative side once again. But then again I wouldn't be able to hunt down top tonnage!

[joea]

Irony. :hmm:

[Skybird]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:

PC: What have I done the first almost 20 years of my life? And I must say, it was not a bad one. Internet: what have I done the first 30+ years of my life?

If somebody does not know how to spend his time and enjoy it without PC and internet, then his life is a really poor mess.

Yeah addiction to Technology on a whole as an illness is just overrated. :hmm:

Regarding games and internet, no. German health system and insurers are short off acepting games addiction and internet addiction being added to the catalogue of addictions for whose treatement the insurers will pay. It best compares to "Spielsucht" cumpulsive gambling. The point is that in the pathologic cases, subjects start to show the same symptoms and social downfalls like "real" addicts to gambling, substance abuse, etc.

Technology as a whole can'T be deleted from the present, but I am sure that it is massively overrated, yes.

However, a PC in the household is fun, and practical, no doubt. It is not as worse than people startzing their car just to drive those three hundred meters to the baker, and return. That is not just a massive increase in fuel, since the engine never gets warm, it also is an increase is wear and tear by a factor of around 7 for the same reason (says Germany's and the world biggest autopmobile club ADAC). but most important: driving a car for 300m in itself is - idiotic. - so when there is a PC, don'T feel bad when you make pragmatic use of it - but don'T cry, if there is none (when I visit friedns for a couple of days, for example, I miss neither the PC nor any forum nor any games a bit). I myself totally reject to depend on computers in my pirvate life. All the important mail I do not via the web, but paper post. All important banking issues I do manually. Loosing my database of items, codes, texts and bilances and all their backups as well wouödn'T hurt me a bit - and that is how it should be.

[kiwi_2005]

I have notice in the last 5 yrs ive become way more dependant on PCs than before, 5 yrs ago i didn't even have the internet, I just moved to broadband last year. Trouble is like a drug alot will fail to see whats it doing, or ignorant to the fact it is controling until they burn out. Hence like that kid on the wow video, thinks he can give up anytime well i hope hes right but i doubt he will without plenty of help.

Creeps up on you. Then bites you in the ass;)

[TteFAboB]

Irony. :hmm:

Touché. :dead:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.


Use my PS2 :rotfl:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Oh, and I didnt particularly appreciate how that guy said:

"And thats what you refer to them as? Friends?"

Once again, its us gamers blamed for societies ills. Listen to his mother "2 hours turned into 4, 4 turned into 6, 6 turned into 12"

So she was just oblivious to that as it was happening? :shifty:

[TteFAboB]

us gamers...

Us gamers? Speak for yourself! I'll pass being associated with these pixel brain eating zombies. :shifty:

[Dowly]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:

Well, I have no problems with having no PC. I spend alot of time on the PC, but when summer comes, I cant wait to go to our summer cottage on weekends. It's in it's own island, so no power, expect what the small generator gives to power the lights when the nights get darker in Fall.

[JSLTIGER]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:
Well, I have no problems with having no PC. I spend alot of time on the PC, but when summer comes, I cant wait to go to our summer cottage on weekends. It's in it's own island, so no power, expect what the small generator gives to power the lights when the nights get darker in Fall.

That seems so...two centuries ago...

[Dowly]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:
Well, I have no problems with having no PC. I spend alot of time on the PC, but when summer comes, I cant wait to go to our summer cottage on weekends. It's in it's own island, so no power, expect what the small generator gives to power the lights when the nights get darker in Fall.
That seems so...two centuries ago...

It's a paradise compared to the city. When it's calm and no clouds in sight. You can literally hear the silence. Now, take the sunny day, calm waters, the silence and the beautifull finnish nature and add a nice smooth rock to sit on and a beer to your hand. Priceless, wouldnt give that away with any price.

[FIREWALL]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:


All the above posts.:D That was easy.


After 5 minutes i'd run to Fry's Electronics and go Puter parts shoppin.

Great excuse for upgradeing. :D

[STEED]

Drink more beer. :p :D

[Skybird]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:
Well, I have no problems with having no PC. I spend alot of time on the PC, but when summer comes, I cant wait to go to our summer cottage on weekends. It's in it's own island, so no power, expect what the small generator gives to power the lights when the nights get darker in Fall.
That seems so...two centuries ago...

It's a paradise compared to the city. When it's calm and no clouds in sight. You can literally hear the silence. Now, take the sunny day, calm waters, the silence and the beautifull finnish nature and add a nice smooth rock to sit on and a beer to your hand. Priceless, wouldnt give that away with any price.
So wouldn't I - sounds too good to give it up!

[kiwi_2005]

I think Dowly got the best escapism. I know the feeling I lived near bush nearly all my life then became a townie and i become this...:nope: :roll:

[silentrunner]

Technology is just modern times. When farming was just about the only thing to do in rural America nobody said that people were addicted to farming.

[silentrunner]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:

I would get the hell out of my household and go somewhere with a computer!
DUHH!!!!!!!!

[Blacklight]

If there was no PC in my house, I'd be even more obsessed about playing my cardboard wargames and my pencil and paper role playing games.:88) Also.. My music reccording quality would stink. Editing on a multitrack tape deck is REALLY hard and you lose sound quality with each edit.

[joea]

Since no one got my comment I think it's funny complaining about technology on an internet forum. :roll:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Also.. My music reccording quality would stink. Editing on a multitrack tape deck is REALLY hard and you lose sound quality with each edit.


Yep, same here. No music for me without FruityLoops :88)

[Skybird]

If there was no PC in my house, I'd be even more obsessed about playing my cardboard wargames and my pencil and paper role playing games.:88)
Ha! :up:

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7609/img0013mo3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6391/img0014qb9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8556/img0821id6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/2024/img0015cs9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

And if that is not battlespace enough, these cuties fighting on 8x8 squares (and representing half of my collection):

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8864/img0796qj9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

what was it with avoiding modern technology? :lol: I need a generator to bridge any powercuts...

[kiwi_2005]

Ha! :up::up:

Now though, how are ya when it comes to forums 24/7:hmm:

[August]

Hey Skybird,

Nice collection!

I've got Ambush and several of its "expansion packs" including a two player version.

[Torplexed]

If there was no PC in my house, I'd be even more obsessed about playing my cardboard wargames and my pencil and paper role playing games.:88) Ha! :up:

Hexagons....unmounted maps.....arcane rulebooks...unpunched counters.....dice!

AAUUUGGGHHH! I can't go back!

I think I still have a few of those titles tho. :hmm:

[Skybird]

If there was no PC in my house, I'd be even more obsessed about playing my cardboard wargames and my pencil and paper role playing games.:88) Ha! :up:

(the Quran black on white demands Muslims to systematically disciminate Chroistzioan and Jewish infidels, and tolerate them in that inferior status only if the submit and accept that - else they, like members of other religoons as well, must be killed.
AAUUUGGGHHH! I can't go back!

Aaaahhhh! I think it's wonderful! I even like the smell of the old boxes, counters, and papers! ;) A lot of memories. I think I have saved Europe as often as I devastated it :lol:

Hexfield strategy never was beaten by any of the RTS titles. Steel Panthers beats C&C anytime for me. RTS like Earth and C&C for me never was much different from hectic action games with too much mouse-clicking in too little time (that was the key to win the game, wasn't it). I am waiting for the release of Word in Flames. Judging by the screenshots and the indepth information of the community, this will become a hell of a title that does not give up on the hexfield- and many-counters-feeling.

[Stealth Hunter]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household?

Read a book, watch TV, listen to the radio, listen to music, play the PS3... got three-dozen others.

[Puster Bill]

Ask yourself this: What would you be doing if there was no PC in your household.:hmm:

Those of us with a more, erm, mature outlook would simply be doing other things.

Probably if I weren't doing stuff on the computer, I'd fire up the Kenwood TS-520 more often, making some CW contacts.