The Most Addictive Object for Me & Maybe You Too... "THE COMPUTER & THE INTERNET."

[Stuart G]

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I GOT HOOKED ON TO COMPUTERS EARLY IN THE 1980s.. I went to the library at first to use the computer & internet. Eventually, I bought one and I using it right now. I use it every day for hours at a time. It took some time to get addicted to this.THING......but I am now addicted to this........"THING."
..........Of course, I have always liked searching at libraries for interesting stuff. I would often go to the downtown Chicago Public Library to get old historical stuff. (no video tapes then, just small records, tapes & newspapers.)
I liked looking at old newspapers that the library had, and eventually taught high school in the Chicago Public Schools. After a while, I started to teach research and how to do it, and often I met students at the local library to teach them in person. (Yes, how to do research and use the internet for research) (and the Reader's Guide & Other Resources)
........Why addictive? When I start, I like to go to certain locations on the internet, to look up the news and certain topics that are not news,: topics like history, Democratic Underground, inflation, war, current events, puzzles and so on.

Anything that is in the library is also on the internet .YES...ANYTHING and some things that are NOT at libraries, are
on the internet )

.............................HARD TO STOP??? ..... ...TOTAL YES!!!....................................... ...............I HAVE STUDIED ADDICTIONS AND TAUGHT THEM AT SOME GROUP MEETINGS, ................
. I want you to know this particular addiction is not new for me. . .I have been addicted to this "THING" for over 30 years.

Got any ideas? I would welcome any ideas at all...But, shutting the "THING DOWN" would be very difficult for me.. And one
of the neat things is after paying for the computer, and all the stuff connected to it, using this THING is very cheap indeed.

(The one thing it certainly wastes is one four letter word...NO NOT MONEY...BUT ....TIME.
Yes, it costs a lot to buy THE THING in the beginning.. .(but after it is bought it is cheap)
.......NO, it doesn't waste time all the time, ..just ... ...SOME OF THE TIME..!!!!!..........

.............I hope the bosses don't delete this, because it is nasty and irrelevant. I am sorry if this post disturbed people,
, but I got in a mood, and I needed to say this.) Why? Why Not???

..........................You think by now, after a number of years .I WOULD HAVE THE ANSWER ????
................... .MAYBE YOU DO......I DON'T.......

.....................NADA, NO,

.............(1 more idea).. .........Thank You for Reading This............Stuart G ....