I’ve only been using the net for one month. Only visit 2 forums.
And I’m staying up tapping instead of lding.
I’m going to bed right now so anyone coming here in the next 8 hours send your thought waves to me so I’ll have a lucid dream tonight.
I am now going to imagine a moogle flying around in the mountains. If I see a real moogle or I get lost I will be dreaming. YEAH wish me luck.
Night Night
Yeah, I find forums addictive as hell. It’s 1:35 am over where I am, if I didn’t have access to forums I would’ve gone to bed about 3 hours ago 
Forums can certainly become quite addictive. Particularly when a topic of significant interest or importance breaks out, and you consistently can’t wait to get back online and see where the conversation has gone, or who has replied to your particular views on the matter.
Inevitably, you’ll find yourself enthusiastically logging in at any available moment to see if anything has been posted since you last checked, 45 seconds ago. That’s when you know your soul belongs to the internet.
the internet and anything ON the internet is addictive. chatrooms, forums, they are the worst, but when nothing goes on in forums or chatrooms, its still the lure of the internet itself that keeps you online for a gazillion hours a day, and that keeps you coming back even though you are destroying your arms and wrists (like myself, who has developed serious carpal tunnel syndrome in BOTH wrists, and i just turned 20)… 7 straight years of abuse.
it’s an illness i tell you. haha
What’s a moogle? 
forums aren’t addicting so much as instant messenger is for me. i’ll stay up all night on it. 
it’s a bad horrible habbit that will be impossible to break come the school year. oh well.
My name’s Badcandlejack and I’m a recovering chatroom and instant messenger addict.
You can do it, I have completely unfounded faith in you. It’s like a band-aid, it’ll hurt when you pull it off but only for a moment, and then you have the rest of your life to look forward to.
I managed it, it’s now been seventeen days, twelve hours and eight minutes since I last used an emote or typed a stupid acronym.
For me forums are like methadone, the slightly less addictive drug they use to get you off heroin.
A moogle? There’s thousands of moogles around. And you have never met one before!
They come from the rpg game world of “Final Fantasy”. They look just like me a podgy tummy and little wings. Some people think they are too cute but I love them.
I think the problem is there’s so many places to go on this site. I’ve got so much to catch up on, and I’m learning what I’m doing as I go. 
The thing is once I know or think I know what I am doing. Will I settle down and become more selective or get worse?
Hello.
Yes, I found forums addictive. Also, is Carpel tunnel syndrome painful. I’m a computer adict and I’ve heard about this condition. Should I start using my voice package more?
Technodreamer
thank you for your completely unfounded faith in me Badcandlejack. before i completely stop using instant messenger i’m going to attempt to get off of it by 12 am. i think that’s a pretty attainable goal…hopefully 
careful, lest ye get burned.
for real though, it can be bad. I think mmorpgs such as evercrack or daoc are the worst, but forums or downloading can be pretty bad too.
Why does everyone treat forums and chatrooms like they were a cancer that needs to be removed from their lives? Everywhere I go (online), I usually encounter someone who’s pretending they need to ‘defeat’ the internet’s evil grasp of their lives in order to be happy. Why?
I say keep doing what you like. If you find yourself sacrificing school grades and family relations because of it, then you must be absolutely terrible at managing time. Keep going to school, get your work done, then check out the latest posts on your favorite forum. As soon as you tell yourself there’s a problem, there suddenly becomes one.
I’m very much an internet addict and I know it. I keep a livejournal which I update daily and use to communicate with many other people. I go to two online forums and I’ve always been a forum junkie, and have had some brief IRC periods too. Eventually I still prefer forums though, because I like to talk a lot in one go. 
I’ve thought a lot about what the internet means and does. People seem to think it is less real by referring to ‘in real life’ when they’re talking about what they do outside the internet. People seem to think that the internet is full of people who pretend to be who they’re not. I don’t know. I see the internet as a huge platform of human communication. Just because you don’t see someone doesn’t mean it’s less real. One of my closest friends I only know online. Is that a shame? Not to me, but it saddens me that a lot of other people seem to think so.
There are a lot of people, just like me, who have a lot of social anxiety. They’ve been outsiders most of their lives, have been bullied, have had other problems like depression and a dysfunctional family. And like me, these people find comfort and others like them online. Does that make me pathetic, or an addict? Well, then it does. But I know that without my online journal I would not have made it through a lot of my own problems. Without learning that there were so much more people just like me, I probably would’ve felt a lot more alone.
I’m a geek. Yep. Does my schoolwork suffer from it? Well, maybe it did, but I graduated anyway. ^^ And now I’m going to do an education that involves computers for 100%. That’s just the kind of person I am. That the ‘popular’ half of society thinks it’s somehow wrong or evil or bad, is their problem. 
Well… I’ve been using computers for 10 years and so far I have no wrist or eye problems. :\
Moogles are cool 
Anyway. The internet, IMO, is not a bad thing. If there’s anything wrong, it’s society that constantly blames new and complex things for flaws that are really just human nature. School shootings? Let’s blame videogames instead of gun laws! Children are getting bad grades in school? Let’s blame games and the internet instead of our outdated educational methods! It goes on and on. You can blame the internet for everything, but in the end, it’s people that have control over their own lives. If you’re addicted, it’s your own fault, and not the internet’s.
(Sorry, it’s a pet peeve of mine. ^^)
Well said.
I don’t think the internet, or chatrooms, or forums are the problem so much as excessive use of them. Many people (myself included) aren’t particularly good at managing time, and with the wealth of diversions available on the net it’s a procrastinator’s dream.
I should be writing, and ordinarily my willpower would be enough to keep me slaving away at the laptop and not getting up to switch the TV on or make a drink or whatever, but accessing forums requires almost no effort, I can have them open in another window, so it’s extremely easy to check if there’re any new messages, and while I’m doing that I may as well check some other forums, and then click on a link while I’m here, and refresh that first forum… etc. It’s my own weakness, the ease of use of the net just allows it to be played out to the full.
I think there’s also an expectancy about surfing the net, a kind of delayed satisfaction. You may not be enjoying yourself at this moment, but if you click this next link it may be something worthwhile, if you refresh the forum page once more someone may have posted something interesting, if you don’t leave the chatroom just yet someone may make a comment worth reading. The time ends up being spent not in actual entertainment but in waiting for it.
Plus: The internet causes impotence and hair-loss.
Oh, that’s that’s why I’m impotent lol: I’ve been on this forum a lot lately. I spent hours yesterday reading through posts. I’m awful at managing my time as well. I need someone to kick me and tell me to get off lol.
Forums are for people who can type. 
what do you mean by that sage?
Exactly what I said. Nothing more, nothing less.