På Slashdot diskuteras en Reutersartikel som uppger, att rekryter till finska försvarsmakten kan få vänta med sin tjänstgöring om de uppvisar tecken på “internetberoende” - tydligen ett tecken på psykisk omognad.
Ett flertal kommentatorer medger glatt att de lider av denna åkomma, men allvarligare röster saknas inte och det intressanta är inte hur det egentligen går till i finska försvaret, utan vad som i diskussionen uttrycks om relationen till internet. T ex:
About two years ago I spent 2 months as a counselor at a summer camp, most of which time I had no internet access, and when I did have access it was minimal. I know this is a little pathetic, but I really felt like I was being deprived. I mean, I wasn't sick over it or anything, but it was something I genuinely missed and I was really bothered that I couldn't use it the way I was used to. That said, I don't really think that this is a legitimate sickness worthy of being discharged because of, it's really quite managable. The main way I dealt with it was reading a lot. Generally I don't read that often, but that summer I went through a few tens of books.
Eller:
Eight years ago I was supposed to spend two weeks without net with friends at a lake. Your typical summer holidays. I made it one week before hitchhiking over 600 miles back to "civilization". And that was 8 years ago. I know people who lost big bet that they could stay *one day* without cell phone. A "disconnect" is a serious problem for growing segment of population and net addiction is a real thing
En annan håller med:
The internet IS like an addiction. I personally would go nuts without it - my mind just needs to be stimulated with the overabundant torrent of information... It gives us the ability to access anything, anywhere without much ado, and crutch or not, it gets pretty damn addictive - and is something the mind doesn't want to part with... Take something as simple as a word dictionary. Are you more likely to page through a 600+ book or quickly pop onto www.m-w.com? Exactly... We get used to that. And when we get denied Internet, its almost like sensory deprivation - losing a sense of touch with the world...
Jag kommer osökt att tänka på ett tidigare inlägg om “elektronisk frihet”. Kommentarer som de härovan ger en fingervisning om hur svårt det blivit att klara sig utan nätet (i synnerhet om man inkluderar mobiler). Tänk dig också att man skulle bli tvungen att klara sig utan fast telefon, utan mp3, utan stereo, utan radio, utan teve, utan....
Hur tusan levde man förr egentligen??
Och kom sen inte och säg, att den elektroniska världen bara är mer av “samma sak” (“civilisation”). Nej, en skön ny värld är det, vad man än tycker.
/Per
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