Stereotype? I don't think so...

• Addictive lifestyle? by Tatiana Matveeva (Inity), 2/26/99
  • addiction stereotype by John, 2/26/99
    
    

Hello:

Stereotype? Not, I don't think so. Of course stereotypes do exist. But even all these funny lists with "signs of the Internet addiction" aren't born on empty place. I know such people. I know some such persons IRL (In Real Life); I've seen homes of true Internet addicts... and it is something strange from a first glance... yes, I've seen these really empty flats, poor food in ice-box, only some chairs and one table with a computer in the centre of room and mountains of floppy-disks and CD-ROM disks around... The television set and telephone doesn't work... sad picture. Yes, this is a generalization; but I've seen some such people and their homes (and their lifestyle); and, I know about other such persons from my friends... It's real... so I try to understand, - why...

Tatiana Matveeva / inity@bigfoot.com /
http://inity.junik.lv

• internal world/external world by John, 2/27/99