Internet Addiction Support Group

I can identify with you there. The first thing I do in the morning when I wake up, is log on to check email - and the very last thing I'm doing at night is surfing the net. It's like a ritual almost.

I make a living on the internet, and I procrastinate on the internet, I just don't think I would be able to survive without it.

almost like you can't stop yourself going on the net or can't remove yourself from the net

for me it's as you said, have to check my email several times a day and i get so excited when an email finally does pop up. thats why i am now replying to so many posts because i want that excitement of getting mail.

i keep refreshing pages to see if there are any new questions, posts or replies

also a lot of the time i would be, for example, finishing off answering a question on Yahoo!Answers and i am planning on going to bed, when i see another question and be like, "just this one more". i see another one and say to myself , "just one more" and it keeps going for an hour or two until it is midnight and i realize i have to get up in 7 hours for school. this happens when i am on Youtube especially. "just one more video" turns into; it's 5pm and i have used up most of the broadband, haven't showered, still in my pjs and i don't think i remember seeing daylight today as i had my curtains closed and my eyes fixed to the screen.............

I have my days, too when I am online for more than 8 hours straight. And it is not even to do anything useful. I just have to bum around online for the hell of it.

I would have to agree. I relate, I constantly check my stuff even when I did so a minute previously. I go over the same sites over and over. I get online at every opportunity and cant pull myself away from it. It destroyed my sophomore year in high school as I couldn't pry myself away and do anything else. I even lose a good 15lbs from the fact that I couldn't leave long enough to eat! I stay online all day everyday when I have the ability.

When you look at it objectively, that seems definitely like signs of an addiction. 1st step is realizing there is a problem :)

I game online when I am bored. And I chat with people online.

I lose DAYS. I get through the day and did not accomplish anything I wanted to because I was online all day.

My main source of social interaction is, pathetic to say, Yahoo chat rooms. It has been for years. I've met many friends, including my fiance, in a chat room. My best friend lives in Pennsylvania while I live in Michigan and another one of my closest friends live in Texas... Yahoo messenger is my main way of conversing with them because I have a terrible phone phobia.

First thing I do in the morning is flip on the tower as I'm on my way to the bathroom... last thing I do before bed, shut down. My messenger is on all day, every day from the time I get up to the time I go to bed. When I don't have that connection, I feel... lost. I spent a number of months without internet due to financial woes. I then spent far too long at the library on THEIR computers or waiting around in order to USE one of their computers...

I would say that I am addicted to the internet in the capacity that I cannot stop my self from going online. No matter what else is on my agenda (namely my studies), the internet seems to take priority despite my knowing that other things are of greater importance. One thing that seemed to hit me was my youtube account. In the months since I opened THAT account, (which I might add I had opened in January '09) I had noticed that I had watched over 12,000 videos. But that's not all I do, I surf wikipedia, google and countless forums. It was at this point that I tried to put the brakes on, but I still can't stop myself from doing it.

I say that I am addicted to the internet because I am on for more than 1 hour at a time, and, that is everyday. I have been known to be on for three hours at a time, and, it sickens me. So, I need to get a life.