Addictive lifestyle?

Hello:

Yes, I ask similar questions about addictive lifestyle, but always from different points of view. And I enjoy new answers, for they help to my understanding - understanding of the Internet, and in general understaniding the way things work. I'm not a psychologist... but I'd like to know it better (THere are too much different things I'm interested in!)

OK, then let me to ask a question which will be more psychology related. I understand many reasons, why computers and Internet can be really addictive. But then I'd like to understand... why the "addictive lifestyle" has these similar signs? Why "addicted" people (especially Internet addicted) look so similar - and, what is most interesting for me - why signs of "addictive lifestyle" are these "less furniture in home, only few edible items in ice-box..." etc, - all what was described above and, may be, other common signs)? I don't think that only the lack of time is a reason. How does it work? How the "system of priorities" is being re-organized, if someone becomes addicted to something? May be, the mechanism of forming of an addiction (we all started being so innocent! :)

My attempts to understand it... may be you've seen my articles "Nerdity declaration" and "The night before the sunrise" - only two of my articles translated into english, sorry... They were written in 1997...

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

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