You are addicted to Internet when...
- You spend too much time online than you originally intend to.
- You have a constant desire of being online when you are away from the computer.
- You wake up in the morning with red and itchy eyes and immediately go online to check email, facebook and twitter messages.
- You feel restless, irritable, moody when you dont have internet access for a while.
- You are more addicted to social networking sites and try to socialize with your close friends through them instead of giving them a call.
If you are one among those crazy folks, you are surely suffering from Internet Addictive Disorder (IAD) or Internet Overuse Syndrome (IOS). Anything excessive than normal usage becomes pathological and interferes with ones personal life and daily chores. It ruins your normal sleep cycles and makes you irritable and angry to your own professional and personal life. For some just watching some funny you tube videos all the time can be an addiction, and for others socializing with friends using social networking sites or just chatting with them. can be an addiction. No matter what form of Internet addiction you suffer from you may have a serious problem that needs to be dealt with.
Some tips to overcome this Internet addiction..
Some tips to overcome this Internet addiction..
- Try not check mails as soon as you wake up, and even in office for every one hour or so. No one expects you to reply immediately.Even an urgent mail can wait for 2 to 3 hours.
- Try not to stay online during office hours. Even after you come home, try set a limit for the time you have to stay online. May be 1/2 hr after your day's work or at the max 1 hour. Take time off to read some book, cook something, clean your house or do some of your daily chores.
- Try developing a hobby which is far from computers. Hitting the gym regularly may help keep you fit as well as stay away from Internet.
- Try not to download movies over the internet. Instead go for a theatre to watch a movie. Ofcourse if you are addicted to downloading pornography, God only can save you :).
- Make a call to your close friends instead of poking them in facebook, or scrapping them in orkut.Though you know they are most likely to jump off their chairs and break their legs when you call them, but still try to do that.
- Go to bed at decent hours of the night rather than stay up till God awful hours on the Internet.
- Leave office early once you are done with your work. Don't stay late just to chat with your friends. Instead go out with your friends or family.
Internet is a wonderful tool, but like everything else in this Universe there is the sunshine and the darkness to it. Stay Positive and just practice the opposite. Your hunger for knowledge is good for you, but not at the expense of your personal life.
Good one!! R u going to practice it ?
ReplyDeleteI am sure atleast in india people spend most time infront of comp for four main reasons.
ReplyDelete1) porn porn porn
2) movies
3) mails/chat
4) games
mails and chat should be done in regular intervals (differ for every one, one day to once in few hours). In chat specially people should make them available if they have leisure time or have friends who do not overwhelm you with chat.
movies: It's good experience to watch few in Theaters, T.V then all in computer (which any way will be in bad quality).
porn/games: As already pointed by my friend, God only can save them. They should surely have self control
Good one rambo bhai, but charity begins at home... Now it'd be cool if you can add an edit and tell how much of it you are going to apply?
ReplyDeleteChat in office is biggest evil, esp an office where nothin's banned, it needs a bigger self control than the one needed in meditation to stop your fingers from typing those dreaded address to check your notifications, and with simplicity of multiplefeeds in one site and auto connect and all it is relentless!!
As for porn, i think once a person gets settled the PORN fever also goes down, however it's a good stress buster you see..