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Fickle ([personal profile] fickle) wrote2007-03-13 05:22 am

Internet addiction BOOT CAMPS?!

China takes 'Net addiction very seriously.

The part that killed me was:

Addiction to the Internet is blamed for most juvenile crime in China, a number of suicides, and deaths from exhaustion by players unable to tear themselves away from marathon game sessions.

In 2005, a Shanghai court handed a life sentence to an online game player who stabbed a competitor to death for stealing his cyber-sword -- a virtual prize earned during game-play.


SUICIDES. DEATH FROM EXHAUSTION. Holy fuck, guys. I mean, I've stayed up for 40+ hours from insomnia but that's not the same as not being able to tear myself off the Net. I stay on the Net because I'm awake, not stay awake to be on the Net.

And apart from which, boot camp? BOOT CAMP? Some of my closest friends are people who I know because of the Net. How does that equal sociopathy due to not enough interaction with other humans? Gah. Who gets sent to boot fucking camp to cure Net addiction?

Not to mention that I'm exhausted enough to picture a camp full of shoes, pumpin' it to the max. High heels working that spine, sneakers flapping their tongues, laces really testing how much weight they can take, etc. It's a rather amusing mental image, though it does absolutely nothing to alleviate the absolute horror of being sent off to BOOT CAMP for Net addiction.

Really. BOOT CAMP. And in case you haven't got the point already, BOOT CAMP. Boot freakin' camp, man.

Edot: Okay, so this has nothing to do with Internet addiction at all, but for all the short, gorgeous girls on my flist who hate their height, here's an interesting little snippet about heights and celebs.

Christina Aguilera (5'2")
Eva Longoria (5'2")
Rachel Bilson (5'1")
Hillary Duff (5'2")
Britney Spears (5'4")
Kate Bush (5')
Jessica Simpson (5′4")
Jada Pinkett Smith (5′)


I'm the same height as Britney Spears and have better hair. Cool.

[identity profile] punk-rock-nerd.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ficlet; bed or MSN.

Your choice.

But NOW.

[identity profile] ego-chan.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
This is why we all wear heels. So's we don't look very 5'3''. xD

And those Chinese are just insane. Wow. ^^;;

[identity profile] daemonsadvocate.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It's worse in Korea. People game day and night to try get top scores in games, and they'll form gangs based off their clan members. If someone comes in and steals their stuff during a raid or whatever, they'll go find the person, pull them out into the street, and beat them.

It's been going on for years and it's more motivated by obsessive compulsive people in their upper teens and 20's.

I'm taller than everyone on that list *blush*.

[identity profile] alexshido.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
So,uh... why is this under a feminism tag? =P

[identity profile] nevita.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I've read a lot of articles about things like that. It's not just China. (: South Korea had a similar problem a while back (probably still does) and in Japan, there's a big problem with kids so addicted to the computer that they kill other children over it.

... Hooray. O:

[identity profile] anemonesque.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT HEIGHT LISTING JUST MADE MY DAY.

:D :D :D

I'm 5'1". *curls up and dies*

[identity profile] xinda.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
To not say something already said here... yeah, some of my closest friends I either met through the net or it's my main source of maintaining contact with people. I think that so long as you're not doing EVERYTHING on the net (and NEVER leaving your home) then it's fine... well, up to a point xD But yes.

O_O! Christina's only 2" taller than me!? HEY! JADA PICKETT SMITH & KATE BUSH ARE SLIGHTLY TALLER THAN ME??! Omfg. HA HA.

I don't feel so short anymore.