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I have lost interest in my studies. I finish them as fast as I can to get to the Internet and spend time on forums or chat with friends.
I waste a lot of time... What can I do?

P.S: No witty answers such as "Get off Y!A"...

The good thing is that you are definitely not in denial about your issue. You have made a big step to solving this "problem." I would suggest that you wean yourself away from the internet. You seem to have some discipline (at least you finish your studies before you log on). Try to establish a time frame that you want to be online and slowly begin to decrease the amount of time that you spend online. Think of something that you like to do ( I reccomend that it be out of the house). If that doesnt work, try to get the help of your friends and family to help you cut back on internet time. Maybe they could set up some types of incentives or rewards that will be given if you stick to your goal of......i dont know 30 mins. per day. (just an example)

2008-05-13 15:57:46 by Venom

This video is about why the people don#39;t must to pass a lot of time in the internet and why the internat addiction is very bad. By Katie ...

Since I was very young I never had a lot of friends. I was bullied since I was very little and people had fun humiliating me because I never reacted. My step-father (mother's husband) had mental problems and would beat me up for no reason whenever he forgot to take his medications (which happened several times a year). I always felt rejected everywhere and I think I partially hate my step father. I won't go into deep details but I really feel I did NOT deserve many things he did to me (he told me he was sorry and felt bad about it, that it was not his fault, etc... but I can't keep myself from being completely angry whenever I think about him).

I always had an addictive personality. From the moment I got my very first video games (on the Sega Genesis in 1997), I got hooked to things behind a screen. I often spent days playing it and when I got access to the internet a few years ago, I spent hours playing flash games. Afterwards, I got addicted to a role playing card game (Magic the Gathering) and I played it nearly every days for about 3 years. This was not as bad since it gave me some social interactions as well as real life friends but I stopped playing when the local card shop clossed. Afterwards, I got addicted to various online games (mostly role playing games). In 10th grade, I bought the game known as World of Warcraft. I played that game a ridiculous amount of hours. I would usually play from 2.30pm (when I got back from school) until 10.30pm (my parents asked me to close my computer at 10.30 during school days). Once my parents were asleep, I would usually try to play a few extra hours. During week ends, I played until I was completely exhausted (that was usually after 20-30 consecutive hours of gaming, I would then sleep 4-5 hours and play until exhaustion once again). During holidays, I could easily play that game up to 140 hours a week and I often played up to 90+ hours on school weeks. Again, I won't go into details but the game had a very competitive system that rewarded the players that played the most and I wanted to be one of them in order to get those rewards (high quality in-game items). Long story short; I got my account hacked, I bought the game once again, I played even more, I got my 2nd account hacked, I played strangers' accounts for free (I have no idea why I was doing this. Since the accounts were not mine I would not keep any of the rewards I managed to get during the time I played) and then quit the game. I then got addicted to various online forums and I spent most of my 11th grade reading these forums and posting on them for about 8h a day. By the way, I didn't listed all the addictions I failed for, these are the ones I can clearly remember but there were many more (most of them were related to computers).

After finishing my 11th grade, I moved with my real father out of Canada. I am currently doing my 12th grade in an American high school. My new addiction is now Facebook games and random nerds forums. I have 6 Facebook accounts and I usually spend over 6h a day playing role playing games on all my accounts in order to create in-game money (with no real-life value) and I send the money to my main account. I also use my additional accounts to level up my main character (the more you play, the more levels your character gets; if you have 6 accounts you can level up 6x faster). There is also a Facebook application called "Friends for Sale" where you can "buy" other people using an online currency and other people can see who you bought. I also use my 6 accounts in order to create more online currency in that game and then I buy expensive people. During the other hours, I usually go on forums such as www.4chan.org (mostly made up of nerds like me) and discuss about funny things with anonymous people.

I recently got a conditional offer of admission from the College I wish to attend. This College have been my goal for a couple of months and I was extremely happy to receive a conditional offer from them. My results are way under what their typical students usually achieve but I had an interview there and I think they liked me. If I don't meet their conditions, their offer of admission will be cancelled and that would probably be the most horrible deception of my life. In order to get in, I need to get a really high grade (5) on a Calculus AP exam and a high grade (4) on a European History exam. Both my math and my history teacher told me I will have to work very hard in order to achieve that goal. I know I can get this result but it is very hard for me to study or do homeworks for more than 15 consecutive minutes and I constantly feel the need to go on the internet. When I am at school, I always think about how long I have to wait until I can get on the internet. I feel bad whenever I am away from a computer with the internet and this is completely ruining my life. I nearly failed my 9th, 10th and 11th grade because of this bad habit and now I might not get in this College.
I live in my father's office and I can surf the internet on up to 15 computers at the same time. It is impossible to hide them or to disconnect me.
http://psychcentral.com/

The tests results indicate that I have an Adult ADHD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and signs of Schizophrenia :(

Do the following if you are financially well off and have a lot of money:

forget college and stay on the net all day.

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Do the following if you are financially well off but have a limited amount of allowance:

Donate $2/hr of internet usage to a charity .

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Do the following if you are not financially well off:

Slap 30 times very hard (15 times on each chic) for every hour of internet usage

2008-02-17 12:49:52 by anonymous7752

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I don't have friends or anyone else.And I can't imagine myself one day without the internet what do I do I need help!

Force yourself to spend a weekend camping with family and no wireless items like cell phones or lap-tops.

Or a more permanent thing would be either to stop paying for your internet or to disconnect it somehow or ultimately, throw your computer in the attic.

2008-10-26 18:10:26 by starcraftstrategist

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I cannot stop looking at the internet and I think I may have a problem!

If you're spending too much time on the interweb it definitely is not good for you. Moderation is the key. If you have a girlfriend why don't you spend more time with her? If not, what are you doing on here?

2009-02-04 03:48:54 by JL

Some of my family members and myself actually.

Its not just going on the Internet and realizing that you love it to think your addicted to it, its when your warped into it and every single thing in you just breathes the World Wide Web in and out. I'm not like that exactly but every single day (I don't know how or why) I find myself already turning on the computer to check my e-mail and watch YouTube.

Sadly with everything in life the internet has its good and bad sides, and we all see both.

2009-03-19 20:51:30 by Cleverfella