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Perhaps addiction

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by Billosaur (927319) * on Thursday December 14, @09:55AM (#17236420)

(Last Journal: Tuesday December 05, @01:15PM)

Let's face it, people get addicted off of all sorts of things: alcohol, drugs,

skydiving, mountain climbing, etc. Why should Internet use be any different?

Especially if you find it useful to discover information about or talk to

people with interests in something you yourself enjoy. And look at MMPORGs --

are you saying WoW doesn't suck large numbers of people in?

But there's being addicted, and then there's it being a "disease." Frankly, I

think B. F. Skinner would scoff at the notion. To him, everything was stimulus

-> response -> reinforcement, and the more reinforcing an activity was, the

more an organism would engage in it. It's not a "disease" as such, but

something hard-wired into out neural make-up, and the Internet has the

potential to tap into that just like anything else.