{"id":94,"date":"2009-07-17T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-07-17T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:22:04","slug":"how-addicted-to-the-internet-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/how-addicted-to-the-internet-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How addicted to the internet are <em>you<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2009\/07\/alt-text-dependency\" target=\"_blank\">Lore Sjoberg<\/a> provides you with an easy checklist to discover how bad your addiction may be:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If the ancient Egyptians had the internet, there would have been 11 plagues in Exodus, with \u201cunreliable DSL\u201d tucked in between the frogs and the lice.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pain when your DSL goes down, but the bright side is that it gives you a chance to rate yourself on the Internet Dependency Scale. Just compare your actions to those listed below and you\u2019ll know what sort of pathetic digital symbiont you really are.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stage 1 Internet Dependency<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Immediate reaction<\/b>: Check the wires, see if you can steal a neighbor\u2019s Wi-Fi, then get up and do something else.<\/p>\n<p><b>What you do while waiting for the connection to come back<\/b>: Read a book, watch a movie, go for a walk. Is this a trick question?<\/p>\n<p><b>If it doesn\u2019t come back in an hour<\/b>: Call your service provider, then go back to whatever you were doing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cross-posted to the old blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005592.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005592.html<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lore Sjoberg provides you with an easy checklist to discover how bad your addiction may be: If the ancient Egyptians had the internet, there would have been 11 plagues in Exodus, with \u201cunreliable DSL\u201d tucked in between the frogs and the lice. It\u2019s a pain when your DSL goes down, but the bright side is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,15],"tags":[59,58],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-technology","tag-addiction","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}