Addiction my ass.
I have a very hard time believing that even less than half of this article has any basis in fact. Just because I do things differently and use "the big bad addictive internet" to do them does not imply I have some sort of disease.
What is wrong with not bothering with those "social obligations" I keep hearing about? If I choose to live a certain way, that's my problem. Now if I choose that way of life at the expense of being able to actually provide for myself, then it really -is- a problem, now, isn't it? But no. I have gainful employment which actually makes use of the things I like doing in my free time. What the hell's wrong with that?
I guess it's "abnormal" because the average person who lives in rural America doesn't do it. It's kinda like how those personality inventories the psychologists (and others) use measured "normal" way back in the 1950s and then just didn't change it, even though America changed.
My idea of happiness is just not the same as what others expect my idea of "happiness" to be.
What is wrong with not bothering with those "social obligations" I keep hearing about? If I choose to live a certain way, that's my problem. Now if I choose that way of life at the expense of being able to actually provide for myself, then it really -is- a problem, now, isn't it? But no. I have gainful employment which actually makes use of the things I like doing in my free time. What the hell's wrong with that?
I guess it's "abnormal" because the average person who lives in rural America doesn't do it. It's kinda like how those personality inventories the psychologists (and others) use measured "normal" way back in the 1950s and then just didn't change it, even though America changed.
My idea of happiness is just not the same as what others expect my idea of "happiness" to be.