This story was just too crazy to not pass on. if you think you have an internet addiction do not , we repeat DO NOT Tell The Chinese. They may want to shock you back to reality.. YIKES
Take The Test Below to find out your level of Internet Addiction..
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You are an internet addict if …
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You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
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Your bookmark list takes 15 minutes to go from top to bottom.
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Your nightmares are in HTML and GIFS.
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You start introducing yourself as “Jim at net dot com.”
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Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address on TV.
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You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.
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All of your friends have an @ in their names.
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Your dog has its own home page.
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You can’t call your mother … She doesn’t have a modem.
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Your phone bill is as heavy as a brick.
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You don’t know the sex of three of your closest friends because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
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Your husband tells you that he has had the beard for 2 months.
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You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
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Your wife makes a new rule: “The computer cannot come to bed.”
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You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.
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Your wife says communication is important in a marriage … so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.
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China Orders Halt to Treating Internet Addicts With Electric Shock Therapy
By HENRY SANDERSON Associated Press Writer
BEIJING July 14, 2009 (AP)
(Getty Images)
China’s Health Ministry has ordered a hospital to stop using electric shock therapy to cure youths of Internet addiction, saying there was no scientific evidence it worked.
Linyi Mental Health Hospital in eastern Shandong province used the treatment as part of a four-month program that has so far treated nearly 3,000 youths, the China Youth Daily newspaper has reported, citing the psychiatrist who runs it, Yang Yongxin.
The ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site late Monday there is no domestic or international clinical evidence that electric shock therapy helps cure Internet addiction. Electric shock therapy is most often used to treat severe depression.
4 Comments
It is no secret that internet use can be 'abused'.
People fall in love, make money, find friends, get an education, enjoy self-sex(wink) and on and on!
All of these are traps and yes they can end up in a complete control of ones life …hence the label..abused!
Like anything in life there is a necessary balance.
Before the internet came along any personality that had an addictive bend to it was having no problem finding something to abuse.
The Internet is just one more to add to previous addictions such as: alcohol, food, sex, stealing, violence, chaos, drugs, Gamers.. ect (not necessarily in that order)
I am surprised at how much I am hearing about China and its move toward controlling their Internet availability when you would think they would focus on more immediate issues such as Government issues, population, pollution, slavery, prostitution, sex clubs, strip bars ect.
Somehow I am not surprised that China would try something like this as a means of control. It's like the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Jack Nicholson. If China had continued they would have had a rebellion prehaps, or of they had not stopped they could have had streets filled with roaming androids with no emotions, thoughts or feelings other than what their government deemed appropriate. Well, the net is out the bag and there is no putting it back in. Deal with it, China.
With over 1 billion people that could have been a lot of electricity!
you're right about that Harrison.
a whollllllle lotta electricity
thanks for your comment
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