Tag: internet addiction
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Less Net, Less Depression?
Read more: Less Net, Less Depression?UPI: Fighting depression by logging off. A recent study by researchers at Stony Brook University in New York found that online forums and chat sites can aggravate symptoms of depression. Over the course of a year, 13-year-old girls were found to become increasingly depressed and anxious when they participated in online chat sites allowing the…
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“Twilight” Addiction
Read more: “Twilight” AddictionThe L.A. Times looks at the “Twilight” obsession, opening with: Chrystal Johnson didn’t think there was anything unhealthy about her all-consuming fixation with “The Twilight Saga” — until she discovered it was sucking the life out of her marriage…
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Long Thoughts and the Internet Sabbath
Read more: Long Thoughts and the Internet SabbathTo the Point joins the chatter re The Internet and the Human Brain–sparked in part by the publication of an apparently doom-heavy new book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Want to keep yourself thinking “long thoughts”? Take weekends away from the web, suggests one panelist…if you can.
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Hooked on Gadgets
Read more: Hooked on GadgetsIn case you missed it, from the NYT: Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price about addiction to computers, cell phones, etc. Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information…While many people…