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Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do you feel at a loss if you are not online?

On average, how much time do you spend at TVCH?

Do you spend more time with your TVCH friends than you do with real life friends?

Do you feel that TVCH just cannot do without you - even for one day?

Do you try not to sign on to TVCH but wind up signing on anyway?

What do you think constitutes an addiction?



Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes

Hours

Yes

No the other way around

No

Addiction is something that's negative. This isn't.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's good Mocha. A half-full glass attitude.

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I miss being online if I'm away from it, but it doesn't drive me nuts.

To me, it's an addiction if it interrupts other facets of your life. That is, if you decline an invitation to a family dinner or something because you don't want to be away from your keyboard, then you might have a problem. :-)

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Unless you don't like your family to begin with. :-)

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Interesting insight Max.

LOL Mocha.

I posted this because a few people on the board have made comments about being addicted to TVCH and I thought it would be good to hear what others thought of this idea. Is it really an addiction or a fun way to occupy your time?

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does avoiding doing homework count as interfering with other facets of life? Because if I wasn't surfing the internet to avoid homework, I'd be avoiding it some other way.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know Eeyore. What else would you do to avoid homework?



Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nah, that's just procrastination, Eeyore. :-)



Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do you feel at a loss if you are not online?
Sort of. Mostly just get frustrated if my ISP is acting up.

On average, how much time do you spend at TVCH?
Do I really have to answer that? Considering the formatting codes are second nature, and on other sites I have to stop and think how to format my text....I guess I could say I spend all day here, cause even when I'm not surfing, I have my browser set to the home topics page most of the time.

Do you spend more time with your TVCH friends than you do with real life friends?
What real life friends?

Do you feel that TVCH just cannot do without you - even for one day?
Oh, I'm quite sure they could manage. In fact, likely they might not even know I wasn't around for a while! OTOH, I get very flusterpated if I can't log in to TVCH for one reason or another!

Do you try not to sign on to TVCH but wind up signing on anyway?
It never even occurred to me to try and not sign on to TVCH. Oh, the horrors!

What do you think constitutes an addiction?
ad·dic·tion (a-dık“shen) n. Compulsive physiological need for a habit-forming substance.

Oh, what do I think? Hmmmmm..... Well, I have been known to end up at the computer, when I was on my way to do the dishes. Then an hour or two later, its time to go to bed, and the dishes are still not done. So I guess that could be considered an addiction, since my chores were interrupted by my addiction to the computer/TVCH!


Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do you feel at a loss if you are not online?

No, I don't feel at a loss--but I like spending time at TVCH.

On average, how much time do you spend at TVCH?

That is hard to pin down, as time here is affected by how busy work is, where I'm doing work, and how much home stuff there is to deal with.

Do you spend more time with your TVCH friends than you do with real life friends?

Yes, by far.

Do you feel that TVCH just cannot do without you - even for one day?

Not at all. TVCH would roll along great without me.

Do you try not to sign on to TVCH but wind up signing on anyway?

Nope--I don't try not to sign on. Wouldn't think of doing such a thing.

What do you think constitutes an addiction?

I think first of all an addition has to have some negative affect--and next an addiction is about not being willing to not do whatever it is you keep doing that causes the negative affect. (i think saying you can't do it is incorrect--you can stop taking drugs--you choose not to. you can stop eating too much food--you choose not to) (and I speak from experience on the food thing)


Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Now if you want to talk addiction then I can wax poetic on my Ebay/shoe addiction.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Whomum and Lance. So far no one is trying NOT to sign on. Yay.

Mocha, wax poetic on any subject of your choice.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On average, how much time do you spend at TVCH?
depends on which days. If I'm home and kinda tired, maybe a 3 hours over the course of the day and evening. Most days, not nearly that much. On Monday nights....much more than that.

Do you spend more time with your TVCH friends than you do with real life friends?
no, but you have to understand that many TVCHers ARE real life friends of mine. Heck, nearly every time I go on vacation, there they are, right Spy?

Do you feel that TVCH just cannot do without you - even for one day?

TVCH rolls along just great without me whenever I'm gone which is as it should be.

Do you try not to sign on to TVCH but wind up signing on anyway?

nope....when I don't feel like being online, I'm not. When I feel like being online, I usually am.

What do you think constitutes an addiction?
I think an addiction would have to have some detrimental effect on myself and/or my family & friends. TVCH doesn't fall under that category. Family always comes first.

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 7:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I can live with or without it.

As evidenced by posting this post.

Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just out of curiosity I went to internetaddiction.com to see if there was such a site. It is the home of "Internet-a-holics Anonymous". I didn't poke around to see how real it is, but if it is... isn't it sort of like having AA meetings in a bar? Anywho.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Shukran Rosie. :-)

My eBay addiction has it's good days and bad days. I find that if I'm feeling overwhelmed at work then I have to go on eBay and either just look at stuff or also bid on them just to mellow out. I blame Mak for my shoe fettish though. And when I discovered that I could buy them on eBay, it was like a dam broke.

Now I don't keep all of the shoes that I buy. I've given a number of them away to friends. And I have lots more to send too and more that I've recently bid on. And some for me. I don't collect though just for the sake of collecting. I only get the ones I like and the ones that I think match with the people I've given them too. I'm also finding that some I've given away are also ones I want to keep for myself so that means more searching and buyin on eBay.

And now I've gotten into looking for sari material and I have a bid in on this gorgeous rainbow material that I'm going to try to get in bulk so Granny can make me some stuff. See I spread my addition to others. :-)

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 9:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you Tess and Nick.

Melfie, that was interesting. Had no idea there was such a site. You didn't feel like telling us of your TVCH experiences?

Mocha, Mocha, Mocha, of course you share with others.

Pcakes2
Member

08-29-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do you feel at a loss if you are not online?
No, unless one of my online friends needs some kind words or support, and I'm not around.

On average, how much time do you spend at TVCH?
On & off during the work day and in chat most evenings

Do you spend more time with your TVCH friends than you do with real life friends?
you betcha!

Do you feel that TVCH just cannot do without you - even for one day?
While I like to think that the world revolves around me, TVCH definitely does not.

Do you try not to sign on to TVCH but wind up signing on anyway?
If I'm online, I always try to stop by.

What do you think constitutes an addiction?
Who am I to judge?

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah, Mocha shares her addiction with others ... sigh :-)

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pcakes, I love the "... world revolves around me ..."

Ut roh, how many shoes, Lady?

Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll put it this way, my office hours are 8:30am-5:00pm and guess when I'm here the most. Outside of the office I have actually starting developing a life for the first time in years.

BTW, Mocha, I'm a size 7-1/2 or 8, depending on the style.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
not the shoes ... the ebay stuff ... sigh ...

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
from Mocha:

quote:

I blame Mak for my shoe fettish though.




Mocha? I don't think I caused it. I merely identified it.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uh huh lol.

Oh and Nt, these aren't wearable shoes lol.