This got me thinking about it, and for the life of me, I can't fathom being "to connected."
The fact that I email myself news so that I remember to read it aside (yeah, I know that's weird, but I won't remember to read the stories if I don't), I think that I am no more "connected" to the internet than the average person my age. I have the web at home and at work, I have iPhone, and I have PSP (built in web browser). As a whole, I have access to the internet every hour that I am awake, but I don't see that as being a bad thing at all. It's not as if I spend every hour on the net, and I think that the convenience of having the world at my finger tips is something that I wouldn't ever want to give up.
The more I read into the article, the more these people seemed like me. Ordinary professionals that updated a Facebook and a Twitter, but for the most part they suffered from no "internet addiction" or anything the looked remotely like a bad habit. And trust me, I know what an addicted internet user looks like, so I get that a problem can exist. An old roommate of mine spent every hour that he wasn't working/sleeping on Facebook/Myspace/Poker/whatever... The last I saw of him he was getting into something called Mafia Wars. Looks dumb as hell to me, and as such I haven't bothered to play it at all. For the most part, thats what every "internet problem" I have ever known about seems to be. People playing games online rather than dealing with the real world.
But the people in the article weren't gamers, they weren't addicts, and they didn't seem to have a problem. Maybe a bit of a stupidity issue. They were willing to pay a company to delete their Facebook/Twitter/MySpace accounts.
So now I have this idea rattling around in my head like a penny in a clothes dryer... WTF is "to connected"?!?!?!?!
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