How bad is your computer/internet addiction?

I can stop whenever I want.

>>58887502
So that's where that pepe came from

Anyway could be worse but still pretty bad 75% PC 25% TV (mostly watching MSM shitlords shit themselves 24/7)

>>58887502
18/7.

>>58887502
"[...] inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships, and a dysfunctional emotional response."

Neither of these "significant problems" apply to me, so I wouldn't call this habit an addiction, because it has no downside.

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>>58887502
I consider my laptop a part of my body like my legs or arms.
The Internets is the only way I can have satisfying human interaction.
Without internet and computers I will rather die.

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>>58887502
I am the Internet.

i can say i dont watch tv
But basically all time i dont study, watch anime or other things or masturbate its computer

>>58887556
>Without internet and computers I will rather die.
damn, anon

It's bad.

>>58887502
Clinically bad

>>58887502

It's not really much of an addiction

it would be hard for me to go without, but it would also be hard for me to live without a car or a grocery store

also why would I want to go without those things

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>>58887660
SAD

>>58887502
I have nothing better to do.

>>58887513
Just becuase you keep telling yourself that, it doesn't make it true.

I only leave my desk for 3 reasons.

>go to bed
>go to bathroom
>go to kitchen

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>>58887528
for reference

>>58887502
I can stay off it but without a purpose or a reason to stay off it I'm just someone stretching the truth. Otherwise, it's either go online and discuss important things and possibly help someone or go back to living my life and be utterly and completely over-scoped by the kinds of people that raised you all.

It's only bad if you think being among people and drinking and stuff is better. If you think I'd prefer working with those people to being on here, you're wrong about that too. It's not like my computer addiction has to do with porn, erotica, gore or any of that disgusting stuff. It's that I know I'm going to find something new and I want to know what that is. Nothing else in the world can offer me that. Not even Chess.

As for a more formal approach, imma go down the list:
>Inability to consistently abstain
1/2
>impairment in behavioral control
never had that problem
>craving
1/7
>diminished recognition of significant problems with one's behaviors
I ruminate less thinking that it equates to talking to yourself and is thus crazy for a computer afficionado? Does this make me crazy?
>and relationships
Well, I got to see my own friends in that annoying fb myspace and ig light so I guess so. I lost a lot of respect for how much attention they seek for the thrill of having told someone, ANYONE, that they got it for no apparent reason other than they are who they are and that awesome person gave them attention.
>and a dysfunctional emotional response
If by that you mean want to talk about it clearly, concisely and even write it out, then yes.

I mean, these things come up, but not on the daily, not on the ready ( that's usually spectator people heckling or getting insecure ) and definitely not over my computer. These things happen because I live among addicts and they live among more addicts and among themselves they describe a reality, persona and idea for them all as one to carry together in fighting this horrible disease that they gather to propogate...

>>58888243
are you me

>>58888335
Depends. If you work from home on the computer doing back office work, earning a pretty penny with it too, then yes.

>>58888369
cuck

>>58888389
>I don't know what words mean

>>58887556
I remember that thread of the pic it was sad

>>58887502
It's bad. I am on it all day long. At this point its basically a choice between being an internet addict or being a data hoarder. I used to go to a bunch of different websites in the past but you couldn't tell me that today because it seems you could use the fingers of a single hand to count those websites now.

I could do without most of what the internet except for messaging, that is important to me more than the content it provides.

>>58888307
I don't think you're addicted anon, it just sounds like you have nothing else better to do. Perhaps you should revisit old hobbies, photography is nice because it gets you out of the house if you live in a area where you can do that.

Frankly I think it is troublesome that we here on /g/ are aware of how much internet we use and how it is somewhat a problem but baby boomers I know think I am really addicted but they're the ones who won't put their smartphone down when we are at the dinner table or leave their phones alone when they ding or ring. And god forbid the phone actually rings, they CAN NOT let it ring they HAVE to answer it.

I think most of us are pretty healthy in our relationship to the internet, we just have nothing else better to do.

I have a device capable of internet connection by me 24/7
I literally sleep with my laptop on my bed.
If i go downstairs to cook I have my phone or laptop.
I cant concentrate on anything and i have the entirety of human knowledge and stupidity at my fingertips at all times and it's ruined me.

>>58887513
Yeah but when do you ever want to stop?

>>58887502
Only as bad as my porn addiction.

>calling a basic need an """addiction"""

REALLY makes you think huh

>>58888955
How is the internet a "basic need"?

>>58889023
How is getting the information you want not a basic need?

I spend all day on my computer. 10+ hours a day. I watch a bit of TV as well. I am NEET.

>>58887502
Very.

>>58889035
Internet is not a basic need.
Food, water, shelter, those are basic needs. information at your finger tips 24/7 isn't.

I can stop whenever I want, but I choose not to ;)

>>58889088
...for you

>>58887502
I need internet access every hour minimum. It's very apparent when I'm on a long distance flight. I'm perfectly fine otherwise but the lack of internet really leaves me in a mood. The only thing worse than that on an airline is a crying baby close by.

>>58887502
I'm on the internet all the time, why wouldn't I be? It's like a window to the entire world, which is really fucking crazy if you think about it.

>>58889097
No.

For a junkie heroin is a basic need for a smoker cigarettes are a basic need. For an internet addict having internet is a basic need.

>>58889116
Is electricity a basic need?

>>58889174
It is a basic need in the context of modern society, yes. If you're talking about primitive cavemen shit then no.

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>tfw addicted to dihydrogen monoxide

>>58889194
It's starting to get old walking all the way uptrais to the kitchen in order to get my fix.

>>58887502
Pretty fucking bad honestly

My motherboard took a shit on me two weeks ago and im losing my fucking mind waiting for my tax return so i can hurry up and replace it and get a new cpu as well

>>58889174
That will/may depend on your lifestyle, I want to wean myself from electricity from the grid as much as possible but it is impossible at this stage for me.

For majority of people in the society we live in I would say yes, electricity is a basic need, and if you live in the US life is impossible without it since you use it to cook, heat and anything else.

Pretty bad, my life is shit outside of the internet. I live inna woods of a backwards fucking redneck state so online is the only place I get fulfilling interactions.

>>58889194
rather do heroin than that shit. baka tbqh famalam

Eating, sleeping, restroom, thirstiness, I remember putting those things off to stay on the internet.

>>58889655
Are you me? Appalachianfag here, I've had enough of this shit, I am moving in a few weeks.

>>58887502
about 16h/day on average. not too bad

>>58889705
I understand completely.

Rural Alaska.

>>58889822
holy shit anon, you could always look into canada if you have no criminal record.

>>58889822
>>58889891
Adding to that, I hear seattle is the refugee center for Alaskans looking to escape.

Literally consumes all of my free time. At least I'm employed, for now.

>>58887502
I have an addiction of wasting my money online on bullshit.

I need help anon.

>>58890228
compete with your friends on who is saving the most money. buy real estate.

>>58890228
>I have an addiction of wasting my money on bullshit.

ftfy

just bought a:
1. an $85 pair of converse boots
2. a $140 pair of adidas NMDs
3. a $450 55" sony 1080p HDTV

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>>58890285
>friends

>>58890304
>has Internet access
>still hasn't figured out how to hunt for good prices
Tfw picked up a 60" 120hz Sony for $200+tax last week.

Learn2fatwallet/slickdeals

>>58890305
lol, but seriously dont give me that shit, you have friends. how long has it been since you graduated?
>>58890304
do you not have a car? could you like buy a car with the money you're "wasting" instead? or something that will hold its value more

I don't know if its adicction, but if I spent two or three days without my own computer I get too easly pissed off, specially at work
It's just that sitting down and shitposting and going on my things without a care in the world it's the most relaxing stuff in the world
I-i c-can quit anytime? r-right?

>>58890386
i recently purchased a 2003 subaru legacy l 5m for $6000. one owner, 71k original miles.

the navy recently threw money at me to move up to upstate NY so this is abnormal for me.

>>58890228
i do this too. i just bought a heat gun and I don't even know why.

>>58890443
>the navy
oh shit no wonder. the subaru sounds nice but $6000 sounds like a lot for what is in effect a 15 year old car even if it only has 71k miles.

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>>58887556
Same except I have a desktop. I would've killed myself a long time ago.

>>58890376
what model?

>>58890466
hey man, new fluids, new tires, free upgraded stereo and speakers. i can live with it. its a subaru, so its not gonna break down that easily either.

Out of work for FMLA. Spend probably 4-8 hours on my computer every day that I'm home and not at the hospital. At the hospital I probably still spend an hour or two on my phone.

Will have FMLA for another two months though, so I'll probably at least start going back to the gym.

>>58890499
>hey man, new fluids, new tires, free upgraded stereo and speakers. i can live with it. its a subaru, so its not gonna break down that easily either.

yeah true, you're right. I am moving back to Europe and what you can get a lot less car back home for the same money as you do here in the US. a $3000 used car in the US will run you 7000 Euros back home. So i been looking at things like that, cars in the US are dirt cheap.

>>58890555
thats true. the other thing is that i was specifically looking for a subaru, and in south carolina, theres not many of them around, so when you do find one, it can get kinda expensive.

Had to go for a month without a computer and internet connection at home for a month. It was hell. The library has some crazy filters going on and it would block completely innocent pages at random, so using their computers was a hassle.

I think I could probably go without it for a prolonged period now though. Not to say I want to, but I could. My living conditions have improved greatly since when that happened 6 years ago.

>>58889194
At least your not addicted to 1,3,7 trimethylxanthine

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>>58889035
Since when the only means of getting the information you want is the internet? And let's be honest for a moment here, you don't use the internet for anything useful, even for yourself. Pic related was never a popular place to go.

>>58891471
What about getting free movies, literature, and credible world news?

>>58887502
>How bad is your computer/internet addiction?
prevent me from doing any sports.
I must try to put some off-time and do some exercises.
Pretty much the only downside atm

>>58891519
>movies
entertainment
>literature
entertainment, but available in public libraries
>credible world news
come on now, news are only important if you are trading stocks

>>58888424
>it was so sad
Why anon?

>>58887556
Which laptop? A thinkpad I hope.

>>58887513
I unironically believe every addict that says this.
They just don't want to stop. It's that simple

>>58890443
>6k for a base 03 leggy
you couldve easily gotten an 08 legacy gt that hasnt been riced to piss for 6k

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>>58887556
>>58890487

But its current year!! You use your phone for internet!!!

You do have a phone don't you /g/?

>>58892792
yeah i could have, and i was about to for 7600 if it didnt sell the day before i went to take a look at it. week and a half after i went in, 2 outback 2.5xt manual wagons showed up.

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>>58889891
I tried and missed the immagration by a couple points. I am only high school ed. blue collar wagecuck.

>>58889944
Was born an raised in Puget Sound area. Used to be cool as fuck in the grunge era but now the northern most west coast (Seattle, Portland, Bay Area) are too full of overstylized, opinionated 20 somethings. I visit family from time to time and the change is shocking.

Anyways this isn't r9k. Have a moose, I'm gonna go discuss tech

>>58892896
So... how many lesbians hit on you or lust after your car?

>>58892922
Is that a fucking rabbit? What kind of acid were you on when you took this picture?

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>>58889822
Rural Alaska seems comfy as hell, if I could get a fast internet connection out there it'd be heaven. Thought of moving to Yellowknife a few times for that reason

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>>58892961
0, cause im indian.

its a nice car, albeit covered in snow and salt now that im in upstate NY rather than SC

>>58893009
>, cause im indian.
and yet you were hesitating moving to NY? dont ever fucking look back, flyover country is pure cancer

>>58892993
>Rural Alaska seems comfy as hell, if I could get a fast internet connection out there it'd be heaven. Thought of moving to Yellowknife a few times for that reason

post card scenaries means no fast speed internet, consider yourself lucky if you have cell phone signal. anytime someone says rural, dont expect such services.

>>58893217
not hesitating. was ordered due to navy.

>>58892108
looks to be an old Toshib, I cant remember the exact name for it right now.

>>58887556
This one gets me every time.

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>>58891569
Yeah it's sad

>>58887502

>that cabinet

>first gen renault scenic

Fuck that pic is old, must be from the late 90s

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>>58892990
naw its an adolescent cow moose. it has been around the cottage since it was a baby. just got ditched by mom last summer. only males have antlers.

>>58892993
we had no high speed until 2008 and 10/1 dsl is currently the fastest available (which I do have at least)

Cell reception is almost non existent, I am 23 miles from a town of 30k. I still use an Alaxander Graham Bell phone, but installed a cell repeater for my friend and family.
>>58892993
looks like Fairbanks, that's where I live, sorta
Environment is cool, on 7 acres with no neighbors. People are Right wing union, conspiracy nuts, drunks and shit kickers.

Here's my pet when she was a little. I named her Maggie

>>58887502
I don't even know if I'm addicted or not.

>>58887502
Were you ever asked "How bad is your telephone/tv/newspaper addiction?" during the 90s/00s? No?

Then fuck off.

>>58893641
10/1 is honestly fast enough for my purposes.

>>58893666
>he thinks the internet didn't exist in the 1990s
normie spotted

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>>58893242
this guy knows. I have a wood stove I use in case the power is out in -40* the house doesn't freeze. A balmy -19f outside with a low of -36f forecast tomorrow.

my house is a toasty 74

gonna dump a few pics

>>58893690
Maximum comfy

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>>58893690
house on the hill is my closest neighbor. looks tiny but it is a 2 story 6 br with a big shop

>>58893686
It did, and I did use it, but for a few hours per week at most. Shit was slow and expensive. There were no local news available, video wasn't available, voip was a far dream.

>>58893690
Fuck that looks comfy.

>>58893641
>10/1 dsl is currently the fastest available
lol, thats what i get in appalachia, my gf can't even get that she's got hughesnet.

>>58893690
holy shit anon i fucking love your place

as far as the right wing nutters, thats just anywhere flyover, usa. If you want to get out of shithole like that, your best luck is a metro city, portland, seattle maybe california.

But

If you are from Alaska and have lived there all your life, even if you have different views from the rest of the populous, you will have a culture shock moving to a very populated area. But when you feel like you're in a prison the best thing you can do for yourself is to search for what you're looking for, I been there.

>>58893719
I did to, and I still feel like my use of it was more productive back then than it is today, seriously the cost of using the internet and the slowness of it meant that you used it as efficiently as possible and so did actual "content creators" who did it for fun. There wasn't as much shit sift through to get good information. Im rambling

>>58893423
It wouldn't be as sad if the anon wasn't ungrateful and glum all the time

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>>58893715
cheaper than a condo in the states

>>58893690

>a fan
>in alaska

Why

>>58893690
It's to ventilate his battlestation so it doesn't smell like weed constantly

>>58887502
My internet addiction was so bad at one point living without it would be the death of me, hell we didn't get decent internet until 2010 we were stuck with hughesnet satellite internet for years and when I got to experience actually chatting and gaming with others I never wanted to let it go. but it's got better over the years.

>>58893843
nigga you're fucking lightweight, i've had highspeed internet since 1998 and there was a point where I was addicted for 5+ years

I'm in the middle of the Andes 150km away from civilization shitposting inside a tent. Pretty fucking addicted.

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>>58893801
There's the people, the weather and having to go about daily life in sub zero temeratures when it can snow 18" overnight.

Not to mention cost of living. foods and perishable goods are expensive. gas is $3 a gallon and you'll use a ton out here. Every furnace is oil fired and heating oil is $2 a gallon. Our little cottage burns about 500-600 gallons a winter. Utilities are also expensive. we have a well and in home water treatment so I have to maintain that. KWH and surcharges are high. my elec bill is $150-250 a month. Tier 1-2 winter gear is expensive. My boots, bibs, gloves, coat hat, mask and base layer were over $1000 and is mostly tier 2

>>58893865
wow, show tent. are you just camping or what?

>>58893869
What do you do for a living? High paying blue collar/trades work I'm guessing?

>>58893869
thats the thing people don't understand about rural america, although alaska is in its own very category.

it is fucking expensive and the quality of life ends up sucking because of that not to mention anything you want or need is at least 45 mins of driving time.

>>58893873
Yeah, camping with my family. Have a pic of some tree.

>>58888863
>I think most of us are pretty healthy in our relationship to the internet, we just have nothing else better to do.
I would agree with this. I mean I've gone away on camps and shit for like weeks at a time without internet/device access and I've suffered nothing typical of withdrawal syndrome, despite the fact that I'm on the internet in nearly all of my spare time.

On the other hand if I were stuck at home for 3 days without internet I'd probably get really annoyed, much like if I had to go without electricity or gas or water for 3 days. I mean I pay for these things for a reason, namely that they're some of the finest technological achievements in the history of mankind and being deprived of them is a massive pain in the ass because much of our life has come to depend on having access to them on demand.

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>>58893831
partly. Rec use is legal here and there are dispensaries in town. I diy tho. going to use a sbc and automate nutrients and watering this summer when I can shut down the light and put it outside

Mainly it's for circulating air when I'm burning the wood stove

>>58893814
you do know the sun doesn't set for 3 months a year and it can get into the 80's in summer. Almost nobody has a/c here because it needs alot of maintenance. Seals and shit fail when it gets frigid.

>>58893901
I am the fleet services coordinator for a major equipment leasing and sales company. I do a mix of desk work, hands on and occasionally get to go to the north slope and large mines for on site claims and inspections. I am salaried make just over 50k a year before bonuses. In 2010 I was a line cook in a bar making 11.00 an hour and living in a studio apt.

>>58893916
yup it is seven miles each way to the nearest store. Shipping costs as much as some items if the retailer ships here at all. Have to buy a month of prime and use amazon and best buy for all my tech purchases/upgrades as they are the only two that ship reasonably. Forget buying used off ebay. If they didn't armor that package for a trip through the seven gates of hell it is showing up broken.

Into old games. Have money. No way to get a RGB capable crt to my house. The two crt in my pic are after 2 years of searching and I drove over 80 miles to get the console tv and paid $75 for a sd tv from 1989

Sorry for the wall of text. I'm getting a little too high.

See you in the other threads anons