Internet Addicts Anonymous
The older I get, the more I feel that my memory isn’t half of what it used to be. I can attribute that to the glowing idiot boxes in my life. Think about it. All we do most of the time is find some TV shows on and watch them, then come online and read some webpages for our news.
Its hard to get away from the internet. Even when we buy an actual print newspaper, there’s a webaddress on the bottom of that sucker, driving us back to a place here online to read more stories, get video, interactive graphs, maps, hyperlinks, recreations, viewer comments, feedback, and immediate gratification with letters to the editors.
Its sort of sad, when you think about it.
And lord knows I’m not calling anyone out on this one because I’m one of the worst offenders of them all. Mindless flash games? Guilty. Refreshing webpages/boards to see if someone’s commented back or updated? Guilty. Wasting my time with social networking sites? All as charged.
Its hard to just “break away” from the internet, and even harder now that its not classified as a type of addiction. Just makes it another thing to worry about and wonder about, when you think about it. When will they define the internet junkies as such.
Until then, I can be thankful that they just installed our new microwave just now. Its slightly smaller and it doesn’t have the same speed cook and delay start functions the old one had, but its a new microwave, and the fact that it’s new is all that matters.
