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8 Most Addictive Things Of The Internet by Arbiola(f): 9:39pm On Jan 28, 2015 |
I think we can officially call the internet an addiction. The thought of traveling to a country where I couldn’t have immediate access to the web is terrifying. Heck, I can’t leave home for more than a couple hours without wondering whats going on around the world wide web. Is the internet making us more or less social? I guess that all depends what your doing on the internet. But there is no real substitute for good old fashioned person to person contact. So what makes the internet so addicting? I put together a list of the things about the internet that is so inviting, enticing, and addicting. 1)Facebook - No matter how hard you try to avoid it at some point you will wind up with a profile on the largest growing social media site on the web. And once you’re there… Facebook is like a drug pusher feeding the addiction by constantly alerting you of new people to bring into your network. They are always telling you who is active in the community… forcing you to succumb to the peer pressure of updating status, writing notes, adding friends, and basically just acting as a Viewer towards all the friends in your network. Yes, I am officially a Facebook addict. 2)Celebrity Gossip- Admit, you can’t resist taking a sneak peak at TMZ or Perez Hilton to see the latest antics that Brittany Spears or Lindsay Lohan are up to. I don’t care if you’re the world’s most alpha male… you probably followed the Madonna-Arod scandal like crack. I know I did. There is just something invigorating about reading about the latest drug arrests, sex tapes, divorce scandals, fashion miscues, and Hollywood hookups of the rich and famous. 3)Youtube- This addiction has no limits. Whether it’s 13 year old boys watching the latest Avril Lavigne video, or it’s your mom forwarding you a video of some goof ball getting hit in the head with a hammer, it seems every one is addicted to the craze that is Youtube. And with over a billion people out there all looking to capture their fifteen minutes of fame… there will be an endless supply of content to keep the jonesing masses happy. 4)Email- This is a no-brainer. But the question is; what is the severity of your addiction? Do you check it once a day? Once in the morning and once at night? Do you check every couple hours? Every hour on the hour? Or are you like some of us mind warped individuals who have it tied into our phones so we don’t miss a beat. There is a special place reserved in the recovery ward for the Blackberry and Iphone addicts. 5)Twitter- Spending hours every day instant messaging and texting our friends isn’t enough. We need more… so from that desire Twitter is born. Twitter allows you to communicate with thousands of people at once through a combination of text messaging and IMing. Want to play Viewer on your favorite internet celebrities… follow them on Twitter. You can read about what they had for dinner, or what website their reading, or how they are constipated and just can’t seem to squeze that last turd out. 6)Hot Chicks with Douchebags- This is the cultural phenomenon that went on to become a coffee table book . What makes this site so addicting? Is is the curiosity of the nature of hottie/douche commingling… is it simply the attractive girls decked out in club gear… or is it Douchebag 1’s insanely funny bits of social commentary? I don’t know. But what I do know is that once you get a taste of Hot Chicks with Douchebags… you’re bound to go back for more. 7)Google- Google is like the internet’s come down drug. When you’ve maxed out all of your other vices… and its three in the morning and you can’t sleep, this is when you find yourself googling obscure terms, childhood friends, long lost lovers, cities you’ll never visit, cartoon shows from your youth, Wade Bogg’s 1988 batting average, movie quotes, Ashely Olsen’s weight, the best burrito joint in Jersey, can you really go blind from masturbating, bikini pictures of Sarah Palin, who designed the Millennium Falcon, Brett Farve’s high school girlfriends name…. I have one piece of advice for all of you out there: After an all night Google binge… be sure to clear your search history. What you find might scare you! 8-Porn- Ah… an oldie but goodie! This one is for all the guys out there that pretend they’re only going to take a peak! All you guys can relate to what a struggle with will power it is knowing that naked women are just a mouse click away? This is an addiction that varies in intensity from the guy who dabbles occasionally when his wife is working late, to the guy who barely leaves his house and refers to porn stars by their first names… But even the best of us fall victim to porns subtle way of roping us in. Admit your disappointed number 8 didn’t come with a link!ť 1 Like |
Re: 8 Most Addictive Things Of The Internet by Nobody: 9:42pm On Jan 28, 2015 |
format your write up properly |
Re: 8 Most Addictive Things Of The Internet by Mutuwa(m): 9:44pm On Jan 28, 2015 |
And our own very best... Nairaland. |
Re: 8 Most Addictive Things Of The Internet by cutieberie1(f): 9:49pm On Jan 28, 2015 |
i'm nt addicted to 1,3 n 5...i am not even using dem even 8... |
Re: 8 Most Addictive Things Of The Internet by Arbiola(f): 9:53pm On Jan 28, 2015 |
cutieberie1:You wish |
Re: 8 Most Addictive Things Of The Internet by cutieberie1(f): 6:55am On Jan 29, 2015 |
Arbiola: smh... wah z dis 1 sayin...pls kindly dnt quote me |
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