If you haven’t read the blog “living in svensworld - surfing and creativity” yet, you should check it out. It’s a pretty interesting blog and the latest post (are you a quitter?) really grabbed my attention. It’s essentially about the addictions to today’s digital world. I think it applies to me but at the same time I like to think I have a pretty good balance between the digital world and reality.

In the blog there are five things you could be guilty of. I am guilty of three of them. I’m also guilty of many other things like watching tv shows or movies while web programming or designing while at the same time blogging or browsing the internet. I have even watched tv or movies while listening to music and playing Battlefield 2142. Thats a lot of noise and visual activity going on at the same time. Is that addiction or is it addiction when I am away from the computer and hear the chime of a new email arriving and I must check it?

My weekends are spent working on the computer or while i’m away from the computer i’m thinking about what else I need to get done or what else I want to do on the computer. After work the first place I go is to the computer….yet I work on a computer for a living. :shock: So I must be addicted to it but 4 days out of the week I spend 1 1/2 hours in the gym and have spent the last 2 years making the most radical physical change to my body ever. That is gaining 50lbs of pure, lean, muscle. :twisted: I don’t have many friends (although that is mostly due to moving frequently within the last 2 years) so I spend almost all of my free time in the digital world. Is that so bad? Is that an addiction? I’m not a social networking whore and I don’t have to update my status online every 10 minutes but I do think I am addicted to the technologies of the world today.

Excellent blog Mr. Sven! It definitely got me to take a step back and look at who I am and what I do. I am an addict and i’m proud of what I do. At the same time I take care of my body, have a beautiful relationship with an amazing girl developing into a marriage one day, and I don’t have social communication issues. So no, I’m not a quitter but I still manage to have a balance between my addiction and the real world. :mrgreen: