WEEK 11
This week I used Lycos and Webcrawler and looked up "internet
addiction help". I
was kind of curious to see if there was an
acknowledged "addiction" and if there
was, if there was any sort of
support or treatment.
First the Lycos results. The first
document I perused was called the Planet Earth Home Page Internet Information.
This mostly contained listing or methods of finding people online. For example,
the Internet White Pages and the Internet
Yellow Pages. The other documents were mostly help manuals (like, the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet, an internet
help desk, etc.). This was not what I was looking for but it did contain relevant topics. This document mostly related to social psyc
hology, in terms of helping
people relate and be connected and also had aspects of helping others. Not really exciting,
mostly lists but possibly
helpful.
Another thing I looked at in Lycos was called Internet exploration, tools and
help. In this document was a link to the Whole
Internet catalog and Internet guides by this guy namedJohn December. Pretty straight
-forward writing, not flashy, but the Whole Internet Catalog was pretty damn comprehensive,
with some rather inter
esting links. I suppose as well as being helpful, this document
can give us a hint as to how massive the
internet is and the place we have in it, which if you think about can
definitely be related to everyday situations.
On Webcrawler, I
definitely hit pay dirt. I found something called
Weboholics
Anonymous.
This was really good, written in an easy to
read, semi-humorous tone. This document even had symptoms of Web Addiction and offered the afflicted with the chance to join an online support group, to get you through
those tough times away, hey wait a mi
nute, online support group for addiction to
being online, isn't that
kind of like having an AA meeting in a bar? Maybe it's
just me (or
maybe I'm too damn cynical). Anyway, addiction is definitely relevant to
psychology,
but anyway this was a fun page to look at. That's it for
now .