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  1. Xref: sparky alt.irc.recovery:233 alt.usenet.recovery:143 rec.games.mud.misc:354
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!bionet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!friedman
  3. From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery,alt.usenet.recovery,rec.games.mud.misc
  5. Subject: Re: Net "Addiction": a Theory
  6. Message-ID: <FRIEDMAN.92Jul21223841@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
  7. Date: 22 Jul 92 02:38:41 GMT
  8. References: <BrKCyq.GvG@ais.org> <nht4qm4@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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  15. In-reply-to: smithrud@ucsu.Colorado.EDU's message of 21 Jul 92 23:44:53 GMT
  16.  
  17. In article <1992Jul21.234453.302@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> smithrud@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Carolyn Louise Smithrud) writes:
  18. >                                                               However,
  19. >how about some discussion on:  Does network communcation have the
  20. >POTENTIAL to become unhealthy?  
  21.  
  22.    Why is this an interesting question?  There is the potential for
  23. unhealthy use of everything in our daily lives: television, telephones,
  24. even food (I'm overweight---that is an unhealthy use of food).  The answer
  25. to your question is undoubtedly "yes."  Whether or not certain people have
  26. an unhealthy "addiction" to IRC or muds is also not in question.  Several
  27. people admit to being addicted to them, have flunked out of college because
  28. they spent to much time on them, and so on.  What was in question
  29. originally seemed to be whether or not these things were inherently
  30. narcotic, in an electronic sense.
  31.