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 Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:57 pm
my mom says i am adicted to the computer....
its because i live around boys who hate me....
is it bad to become overly obsessed with your internet life?
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:05 pm
My mom tells me the same thing all the time. rolleyes
It's true, you CAN get addicted to the computer, but unless it's a priority in your life, i don't think you have a problem. Just using it to pass the time or get away for a while isn't too detrimental.
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:09 pm
well, hmmmmm, I have to say this:
My name is Katlyn and I'm a computer addict.
Anyways, I think that you can go on the computer and enjoy your internet life but don't forget about the outside life. I live around boys who hate me also. It can get annoying, I used to love to walk my dog around my block until those boys started hating me more and harassed me everytime I went on their side of the block. Now, I pretty much stay inside me house on the computer. But I also do other things. Every chance I get, I go to a friends house or to my cousins house, I go outside in my backyard. I still have a life outside of the internet even though I'm on the internet a lot.
Hope you get better advice, I'm not the best on that kind of advice...
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:17 pm
My mom got really worried and thought I was depressed about 3 years ago and that I was on the computer all the time and I was computer addicted and nowhere to turn to BUT the computer.
I just didn't have anyone to hang out with.
lol
I'm not bad now...I go on the computer when there is nothing to do....which is all the time. Unless, I want to hang out with family and give the computer a break.
I need a job...lol
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:29 pm
Katlyn-Bunny well, hmmmmm, I have to say this:
My name is Katlyn and I'm a computer addict.
Anyways, I think that you can go on the computer and enjoy your internet life but don't forget about the outside life. I live around boys who hate me also. It can get annoying, I used to love to walk my dog around my block until those boys started hating me more and harassed me everytime I went on their side of the block. Now, I pretty much stay inside me house on the computer. But I also do other things. Every chance I get, I go to a friends house or to my cousins house, I go outside in my backyard. I still have a life outside of the internet even though I'm on the internet a lot.
Hope you get better advice, I'm not the best on that kind of advice... Yes, just like moi!
Where I live, I hate these three people and they love to insult me and my family. My mom was helping me and my brother to deliver the newspaper (this was about 2 years ago) and the father said to my mom that she was doing a baby's job!
My mom is a very hard worker (Has 3 jobs) and she would do anything to help me and my brother and sisters out and that b*****d has to say such a thing to such a nice and wonderful caring mother that cares about her own ******** kids. HIM, ya his wife got into a car accident and died, but my god I never see him with his own kids, he teaches them to tell me and my brother off and to tell my sister that she is fat! Ohhh~ don't ask me what I did when I found out that they said that my older sister was fat.
Anyways....sorry about the rant.
But yea...I grab any chance to go out with friends and family.
xD
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:32 pm
I was watching the Discovery Times Channel because they had one of my fave online games on there: UltimaOnline.
It was talking to people like my Mom's generation about kids at one point saying "If you are worried about your child, the internet won't neccessarily kill their brains. It can actually be beneficial to them developing social skills and becoming the human being they really are but feel they cannot openly display in public due to criticism. They can be the individuals they want to be, and even create friendships and relationships that otherwise would not be possible, and through the link of real life and that of the imaginary, some may indeed find themselves fulfilling their emotional needs as a human being through real life and that of fiction. Though too much exposure and not enough exposure to real life can be harmful, a reasonable amount of internet social activity can actually be very beneficial to an individuals social development."
;3
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:40 pm
[.Volatile.] I was watching the Discovery Times Channel because they had one of my fave online games on there: UltimaOnline. It was talking to people like my Mom's generation about kids at one point saying "If you are worried about your child, the internet won't neccessarily kill their brains. It can actually be beneficial to them developing social skills and becoming the human being they really are but feel they cannot openly display in public due to criticism. They can be the individuals they want to be, and even create friendships and relationships that otherwise would not be possible, and through the link of real life and that of the imaginary, some may indeed find themselves fulfilling their emotional needs as a human being through real life and that of fiction. Though too much exposure and not enough exposure to real life can be harmful, a reasonable amount of internet social activity can actually be very beneficial to an individuals social development." ;3 Haha! That is true though.
I find that gaia has really helped me with my life issues and help me when I'm down. I find that gaia peoples advise are so much better then the ones that my friends have given me. To me it feels that my friends from school don't understand me? They say something like "Oh- I know how you feel. I had to go through worse then that. I this, I that." They arn't helping me....they are only talking about themselves. Plus they think I am too happy to get sad so they say "Oh, you'll get over it and go back to the dumb ways! hahahahahahahh!" I need new friends...lol.
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:48 pm
Katlyn took the words right out of my mouth.
If the computer is your absolute, number one priority, then I think there would be a problem.
But I think it's wired into our parents brains to say we're on the computer too much. rolleyes
My mother has given up on telling me. She shouldn't say anything either, because she can go on the computer for long periods of time as well.
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:12 pm
I don't think I'm addicted to the computer, but I do very much enjoy the things the computer enables me to have. Which is - friendship, basically, and a lot more. I live in a relatively small town and I've never connected with any of the people here. The kids at my middle/high schools were all about sex, alcohol, and drugs, and while I was interested in sex, I knew better than that. Even the ones that weren't, I just didn't seem to get along with. On the internet, it allows me to find people who I can connect with - regardless of how far away we are from each other, and without the social stigmas that usually hang over beginning friendships.
I don't have any friends around here, but I spend a lot of time on Gaia. I write on the computer, as well, and I read things. But I also go to school, and I go grocery shopping with my mother, and shopping sometimes, and to the movies, and all that other stuff. Just because I choose to spend the majority of my social development time on the computer doesn't mean I have problems. I am a thousand times happier now than I was before I found friends on the computer.
In my opinion, parents who worry that their children spend "too much time on the computer" have never actually understood what kids do on the computer. Yeah, some kids are being detrimental to their health, but the majority just aren't. The age where kids spend all their time with their neighborhood and school friends has passed. My friends are connected to me by cyberspace, and if that's all I can have, it's more than I need.
As you can probably see, this is a big issue with me. ^^'''
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:53 pm
 You had at me at Hello. I'm somewhat addicted to my computer.
About 6 years ago thought it was a lot worst. I was obsessed with my internet life. But I don't regret it at all and if anything, I think it made me the person that I am today. I think sometimes the internet can culture people when they're younger, cause you get to know different people.
But now I'm pretty social in my older age, and have real friends, etc. xD Would it be okay, would it be okay if I took your breath away?
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:08 pm
I only think it's bad if you get to the point where you don't give a damn about your outside life at all.
ILY
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:56 pm
Spending time on the computer isn't bad, as long as you can take yourself away to do other things, like many people here have said.
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:12 pm
Dude, a few years ago I was MAJORLY addicted to the computer. It was during the summer so every day from, like, 9 AM to 11 PM I'd be on ALL DAY. It was pretty bad. I'd even decline requests to go out with my friends to be on the computer. Luckily I got over it and I'm was better off. If you ever get to that point I'd advise you to GET OFF and go out with friends! The real world is much more fun than a world made up of pixels!
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