Re: virus: Fwd: Computer Addiction Is Coming On-line

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:45:39 -0800

Eric wrote:

>My personal understanding of individuals is that they only do what
>interests them most -- that, like TV "addiction", this problem is
>merely fabricated by people who think that 10 hours a day of <x> is
>too much. Now, if the people themselves are complaining, I can see
>it... but then the problem is their will-power, not the computer
>itself... if they don't want to play, the off switch is really easy to
>reach.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol , Eric. You don't have a good enough understanding of the nature of addiction to avoid getting yourself in trouble.

-Prof. Tim