Facebook Addicts
'C'mon just admit it'
Deirdre Thompson
Issue date: 1/27/10 Section: Entertainment
Phase III: Escape-You turn to your substitute community more and more often, for longer and longer periods. You feel calm, peaceful and happy on-line, where you don't have to worry about loneliness, homework deadlines, dealing with stress, or "real life" relationship problems. You use Internet use to numb you to negative feelings; you want and need more time online; there never seems to be a good time to sign off."
This is just an excerpt of a Web page from the counseling center of Texas State University that gives tangible advice to the student that gets to school a couple of hours early to get their Mob Wars fix with the free internet. The page covers the broad spectrum of addictions that can arise from computer usage: cyber-sexual addiction, cyber-relationship addiction, net compulsions (where the person compulsively uses online gambling, auctions, and trading), information overload and computer addiction.
It's not enough for these miscreants to be addicted to new technology on their own time, in their own home; they affect campus life more than just hogging all the computers in the library. Networking problems for students with laptops can be a chore in the cafeteria at Truax and other parts of the school.
Take a quick look around the crowded cafeteria. The girl that looks to be swallowed up in the light brown plastic leather chair next to you has on headphones and the finger that is navigating her Facebook page is barely seen through the layers of her hoodie and winter coat. But is she the only one? A longer look proves the small group of two in the far right corner by the windows are showing each other pictures of their friends.
But look at this. A whole crowd (okay about seven students pictured above) are sitting in a circle engrossed in their Facebook pages on their laptops. Some are showing each other how to more effectively care for their Happy Aquarium fish, one is totally zoned out chatting to another friend that is not in the cafeteria, and the others are also comparing friends as one guy explains why he has a certain person that is also friends with the other girls blocked.
This is just an excerpt of a Web page from the counseling center of Texas State University that gives tangible advice to the student that gets to school a couple of hours early to get their Mob Wars fix with the free internet. The page covers the broad spectrum of addictions that can arise from computer usage: cyber-sexual addiction, cyber-relationship addiction, net compulsions (where the person compulsively uses online gambling, auctions, and trading), information overload and computer addiction.
It's not enough for these miscreants to be addicted to new technology on their own time, in their own home; they affect campus life more than just hogging all the computers in the library. Networking problems for students with laptops can be a chore in the cafeteria at Truax and other parts of the school.
Take a quick look around the crowded cafeteria. The girl that looks to be swallowed up in the light brown plastic leather chair next to you has on headphones and the finger that is navigating her Facebook page is barely seen through the layers of her hoodie and winter coat. But is she the only one? A longer look proves the small group of two in the far right corner by the windows are showing each other pictures of their friends.
But look at this. A whole crowd (okay about seven students pictured above) are sitting in a circle engrossed in their Facebook pages on their laptops. Some are showing each other how to more effectively care for their Happy Aquarium fish, one is totally zoned out chatting to another friend that is not in the cafeteria, and the others are also comparing friends as one guy explains why he has a certain person that is also friends with the other girls blocked.
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