Surveys and trivia

Are you addicted to your computer?

Bob CollinsBob Collins Apr 25, 2008
6

For the sake of the future of the little children on the News Cut staff (OK, there aren’t any little children and there isn’t any News Cut staff, but let’s just pretend.), I certainly hope so.

Take this quiz.

This question, in particular, creeps me out:

How often do you prefer the excitement of the Internet to intimacy with your partner?

and so does this one:

How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of the Internet?

Soothing thoughts of the Internet? Oh, bandwidth, you gorgeous bandwidth! Reveal to me the underlying source code of this page. Yes. Yes. Oh, yes.

Full disclosure: I scored a 30. Which means, “You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.”