A few months ago, I heard a woman on the radio mention the term 'Electronic Addiction'. It hit a nerve with me. I'd never heard the term previously, but had always figured some such phenomena waited to be identified. I've always been addicted to electronic stimulus.

There are lots of great sites about Internet Addiction. The most well-established seem to be The Center for Online and Internet Addiction and InternetAddiction.ca.

I didn't need this quiz to tell me that I have a wee bit of a, ahem, problem; but I did the quiz anyway. For the question, "How often do you neglect household chores to spend more time on-line?" I answered, "Often". I found it painfully amusing when I got to the end of the quiz and read the following:


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