Your mom's problematic!
Apr. 25th, 2010 05:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikageShyness scores were also associated with problematic Internet use, that is, using the Internet to decrease a perceived deficit in their real-life social network by establishing virtual friendships online [...], to relieve feelings of loneliness and depression [...], and to avoid instead of attend to stressfull matters at hand [...].
Alright, clearly that last one is problematic, but how in the hell is decreasing a perceived deficit in one's social network or relieving feelings of loneliness and depression considered "problematic"? Are these people just supposed to suck it up and pretend they're normal people? Realize that online friendships aren't real and so can never add to one's social network?
I dunno, maybe I'm reading too far into that sentence, but the wording does piss me off.
Anyways, the bad news is I did lie down earlier, but the good news is I think it was for only 2 or 2.5 hours. Still not sure if I'll get this done before 2:30... Probably not. :-/ But as I said in my last actual post, if I don't it won't be the end of the world, even if it'll mean further sleep deprivation to get it in my tomorrow night.
Looking through my icons to pick which one to use for this post, I realized I miss Nine. I should transfer those episodes to my iPod some time, once I get through my podcast backlog. (I added a few new ones to my subscriptions. ><; Re-added The Dog Trainer which I'm re-listening to from the beginning, since I need to do a lot of work with Cotton; found a good-quality German-language anime podcast; a 15 minute/day German-language news podcast (ARD's Tagesschau), which is a video podcast but I figure I can watch it before going to bed, after turning out the lights, and if I decide the video isn't neccesary I can switch to the audio-only version, or just not watch it; and one called Japan Talk, which may be similar to the apparently and unfortunately defunct Japan Considered podcast, but may also be ending soon.
God, sometime I should actually work out how many hours of podcasts I listen to a week. ><; But as long as I'm able to keep up without taking time out of my actual life, I'm not going to worry about it. Although... I still haven't deccided if it's a bad thing or not that I almost always have to listen through my breaks at work. It might be nice to be able to read more often during them.
Alright, back to work. 8 hours to go. ><; Wish me luck?
P.S. One thing my contemplating for this paper is reminding me is that I really would like to put more time into making real LJ posts, as well as not TL;DRing or skimming (well, usually I end up reading the first two paragraphs, skimming the second 2 or 3, and TL;DRing the rest - which is what I do with basically all online reading these days) my friends' posts, and commenting more. Heh, I remember the days that I made it a point to fully read all the posts on my friends list, and commenting on every post that I had perceivably anything to say about. I don't know if I have time for that in my current life anymore, but I at least want to approach that level of... dedication?... again.
Alright, clearly that last one is problematic, but how in the hell is decreasing a perceived deficit in one's social network or relieving feelings of loneliness and depression considered "problematic"? Are these people just supposed to suck it up and pretend they're normal people? Realize that online friendships aren't real and so can never add to one's social network?
I dunno, maybe I'm reading too far into that sentence, but the wording does piss me off.
Anyways, the bad news is I did lie down earlier, but the good news is I think it was for only 2 or 2.5 hours. Still not sure if I'll get this done before 2:30... Probably not. :-/ But as I said in my last actual post, if I don't it won't be the end of the world, even if it'll mean further sleep deprivation to get it in my tomorrow night.
Looking through my icons to pick which one to use for this post, I realized I miss Nine. I should transfer those episodes to my iPod some time, once I get through my podcast backlog. (I added a few new ones to my subscriptions. ><; Re-added The Dog Trainer which I'm re-listening to from the beginning, since I need to do a lot of work with Cotton; found a good-quality German-language anime podcast; a 15 minute/day German-language news podcast (ARD's Tagesschau), which is a video podcast but I figure I can watch it before going to bed, after turning out the lights, and if I decide the video isn't neccesary I can switch to the audio-only version, or just not watch it; and one called Japan Talk, which may be similar to the apparently and unfortunately defunct Japan Considered podcast, but may also be ending soon.
God, sometime I should actually work out how many hours of podcasts I listen to a week. ><; But as long as I'm able to keep up without taking time out of my actual life, I'm not going to worry about it. Although... I still haven't deccided if it's a bad thing or not that I almost always have to listen through my breaks at work. It might be nice to be able to read more often during them.
Alright, back to work. 8 hours to go. ><; Wish me luck?
P.S. One thing my contemplating for this paper is reminding me is that I really would like to put more time into making real LJ posts, as well as not TL;DRing or skimming (well, usually I end up reading the first two paragraphs, skimming the second 2 or 3, and TL;DRing the rest - which is what I do with basically all online reading these days) my friends' posts, and commenting more. Heh, I remember the days that I made it a point to fully read all the posts on my friends list, and commenting on every post that I had perceivably anything to say about. I don't know if I have time for that in my current life anymore, but I at least want to approach that level of... dedication?... again.
