2003-05-20
... ? Turn on the computer, tune in to the Net, drop out of lifeMost of my life is spent in front of a computer. I spend as much as 10 hours a day online. In college, this was an acceptable, almost admirable, trait. Most of my other addictions that started there -- coffee, napping, procrastinating, staying up until 5 a.m. -- started there and have basically remained constant. My obsession with the Internet, however, has only gotten worse. A few years ago, Internet geeks were heckled for being socially backward. These days, the Web is in vogue, and you can even surf on your cell phone. Match.com is the new, hip way to meet a mate, Instant Messages have influenced the language, and who could really do his or her job as well without e-mail? Finally, I can come out of the cyber-closet -- I am an Internet-obsessed geek.
