Thread: Internet Addiction

You could always go the hard way that I broke myself of always having to be on, but then I still spend a large amount of time. But anyways After getting hit with a $500 internet bill (back in 1996 when the internet wasnt totally prevalent and some places you had to pay per minute on dial up), knocking my girlfriend up and having no clue what I was going to do for a job I joined the U.S. Army. 8 weeks with no computer access, and then since I had a year long advanced training school where I had computer access but not internet access. After all my training I started getting back into the internet but after sleeping through Morning formation a few times and winding up losing a pay grade and having to pull extra duty. I was finally able to keep my internet usage in check(or at least managed to learn how to wake up to my alarm clock after one hour of sleep). I now no longer miss work but I still wind up sleeping through the odd date here and there.

It seems that you reconize what you have to do, as with an addiction you will not be able to overcome it unless you truely want to.

A old friend of mine once told me when i was in a rut that the it only in the hardest times that you truely get to know yourself. And see the good and the bad and what needs to be changed.

good luck, you have skills, you will find ways to use them that are more constructive and fulfilling. keep your chin up.

This has to be the gayest thing I ever read. Have you ever sucked dick for Internet access? I didn't think so...Until you get a real addiction, quit your whining. It's a matter of will power, if you don't want to **** up, then you won't. You lack discipline, it's the same w/ any other "disorder" that's out there like addiction to weed, alcoholism, or ADD. If you want to get over it, then just stop doing it.

See, I had that problem back in the day when I wasn't getting any , but now, I'll def wake up if there's a chance to score.....

Good luck man!

Peace,

Rafster

Originally Posted by BIzFlawless

agreed...but cmon guys Fusion-One is serious about this, so other than the funny *** replys , some good advice or encouragement would be helpful

I wasn't trying to joke around... I was being serious...

If there's something important enough to you that you would be willing to drop your addiction (Girls, Job, w/e) that may be able to help you....

Just focus on thos thing...

Good luck,

Rafster

Originally Posted by Fusion-One

I even wrote a complex program that would limit me to two hours a day of computer usage. I gave it three gaurdian programs to ensure it could not be shut down. THREE so that I wouldn't figure out a way to disable it. It replaced explorer.exe so even if I restarted.. there was my blank locked screen. Go into dos to undo things? It copied itself to a random location on the drive with a random name so I couldn't track it down. - I eventually figured out a way to take it down.. I made a program that gave itself realtime process priority and with 4 threads all running until they found all gaurdian apps, and the mother program.. - and then simultaneously terminated them all. All so I could use the internet more than 2 hours a day.

You see, that's sad...So much time wasted on making a program three times and then hacking back through it.
Unless it's the experience that counts, you could've just gotten this instead:

It's easy: the light half shows you when it's time for bed.

I agree with migel628; it does in fact take discipline.

Also, a computer or even a TV in the bedroom is not such a good idea...
You miss out on all the action Rafster is talking about.

Good luck with your job search.

P.S.
I'd get bored with deleting spam every 30 minutes.