Do you ever feel like you're getting addicted to Lit?

[bobwhitecrow]

I resemble that remark.

I used to be a very casual poster, but in the last year have started posting a lot more. Sometimes I feel totally addicted to Lit, I spend my whole day on my computer and I hit "User CP" every couple of seconds hoping someone has responded to a thread I am subscribed to.

How do you curb your Lit addiction?

However, I too can quit anytime I want. To misquote, Mark Twain, "I've done it dozens of times."

 

[sunfox]

My posting goes through highs and lows. I'll post a lot for a while, then stop for a long while, though I will usually at least log on now and then to see if there are any interesting discussions.

I've been on a talkative jag, but that could wane abruptly at any moment... I have noticed I've been short tempered lately, which usually prefaces a break.

 

[Marquis]

I've been on a talkative jag, but that could wane abruptly at any moment... I have noticed I've been short tempered lately, which usually prefaces a break.

You think you're so cute don't you.

 

[graceanne]

I've been here for nearly five years. At this point it ceases to be an addiction and has become a lifestyle.


Ok, that was mostly tongue in cheek. How do I curb it? I run my own business, no work, no cash.

Yep, and no cash no internet or electricity. No internet or electricity, and no lit!

OH THE HORROR!

 

[FurryFury]

Marquis,

I'm new here but yeah, pretty addicted, all ready. I tend to dive into things and get addicted to them, do them so hard and so deep, until one day something else catches my attention then I hit that hard. Life is good that way.

*grins*

Addiction is just one way of saying I'm focused!

Fury

P. S. Niiiiice pics Marquis!

 

[Marquis]

Marquis,

I'm new here but yeah, pretty addicted, all ready. I tend to dive into things and get addicted to them, do them so hard and so deep, until one day something else catches my attention then I hit that hard. Life is good that way.

*grins*

Addiction is just one way of saying I'm focused!

Fury

P. S. Niiiiice pics Marquis!

Thank you.

 

[sunfox]

You think you're so cute don't you.

Of course. I'm my own biggest fan.

 

[TaintedB]

I'm just glad I stopped myself before I went through my entire Theory of Literotica, I left alot out, even in the post above.

Well, it was interesting to read, so I'm glad you posted it. I noticed you left out certain variations in the pattern, like the KaPow! I Am Here! Brinnie style, for instance.

I have my own nonstandard startup style as, well honed after many long stupid years online; I call it "weeding the garden."

 

[BlueSugar]

Well, it was interesting to read, so I'm glad you posted it. I noticed you left out certain variations in the pattern, like the KaPow! I Am Here! Brinnie style, for instance.

I have my own nonstandard startup style as, well honed after many long stupid years online; I call it "weeding the garden."

Brinnie fits in the Adicted Annoying spot. I don't have fancy names for anything, I call it as I see it *shrug* maybe I should write it all out for comedy's sake...

 

[HypnoticDreams]

Coming back and going

With me I always end up coming back although something usually happens when I think I am done with it to draw me back with more to learn from this site and about myself even if it is on a new name, there are always people here with openarms

 

[Marquis]

I think Graceanne hit on something interesting.

Do you think you're here because you're depressed?


I get very anti-social when I am depressed and I think that's a good part of why I prefer to spend my time online. I wonder if that's true for more of us.

 

[Kajira Callista]

I think Graceanne hit on something interesting.

Do you think you're here because you're depressed?


I get very anti-social when I am depressed and I think that's a good part of why I prefer to spend my time online. I wonder if that's true for more of us.

yes....when i'm in a dark mood i spend alot of time pondering way too serious stuff...the bdsm board is a good place for me to post the stuff i ponder because a few people get it.

 

[BlueEyesInLevis]

yes....when i'm in a dark mood i spend alot of time pondering way too serious stuff...the bdsm board is a good place for me to post the stuff i ponder because a few people get it.

I dont know about the rest of "it" but I get that mouth.

 

[Kajira Callista]

*hides*

 

[shy slave]

I think Graceanne hit on something interesting.

Do you think you're here because you're depressed?


I get very anti-social when I am depressed and I think that's a good part of why I prefer to spend my time online. I wonder if that's true for more of us.

As KC said I too spend a long time pondering the serious stuff when I am in a dark mood, I dont always post at the time but wait until the mood lifts.

I dont think the only reason I am here is because I am depressed, I think there are other reasons; but I do communicate more with people online instead of face-to-face when i am in a black mood.

 

[shy slave]

There are a few steps to being a poster on Lit.

Noob too scared to post

Novice posting but timidly starting to get a hang of things

Apprentence when you get the hang of things and meet people and you make
threads of your own that don't get the "check here..." response.

Then there is the
Addict Annoying - the noob doesn't seem to wash off, flame wars, improper posting "style"

Addict reasonable - Becoming a regular, you start to feel withdrawel when away, and start to have conversations outside of lit that are either from lit posts OR you feel could be turned into lit posts later.

Addict Obsessed - you..just.. can't.. leave... finding excuses to look and post and you feel when lit is slow and you start to see when certain people are on and you tend to stick around for each wave of posters. You also start to post on other boards as a regular actively, and make an opinion on the seperate boards.

At any one of these times you are recgonized as A Regular. This has to do with how many posts you have, what kind of fluff you post, and your posting style in general compared to how usefull you are around the boards and how many Lit people you friend or spawn. Its more of a respect position thing then anything really.

there are more stages... but I fear to post anymore bc I've just outed my Geekdom in having on my own classified different groups and levels of Lit on my own.

... anyway... what I ment to say was, the addiction dies down after you notice a few things:

1. Everything has been said or done already.
2. The people you are friends with decrease their posts so you have nothing to respond to.
3. Lit loses its New Car Smell.
4. You start to only post thoughtful things, and don't see the point in fluff anymore.

After this (and a few other stages) you're considered a type of Oldie bc you're posts aren't as often as they used to be, but when they are, they are thoughtful and have references to "the old days" in them. Its fun to post alot and then not at all just to watch the reaction of the people that came to Lit just as you were leaving -- so they got to know you and respect you, and are excited when the wise/funny you is around. This usually brings other Oldies out of hiding to do much the same.

I may delete this later to save myself.

"dont see the point of fluff anymore"

Its taken me this long to do the fluffy stuff!!!!

Maybe that means i not an addicit or maybe it means I past help lol

 

[BlueEyesInLevis]

*hides*

no need to hide

 

[FurryFury]

I'm not depressed atm.
I post all the time at various sites no matter what mood I'm in.

I'm usually in a very good mood.

*c*

 

[Marquis]

My depression works differently.

I am often in a pretty pleasant mood posting online, I just dont feel like leaving my apartment or seeing anyone's face.

 

[graceanne]

"dont see the point of fluff anymore"

Its taken me this long to do the fluffy stuff!!!!

Maybe that means i not an addicit or maybe it means I past help lol

I vote for 'past help'.

 

[graceanne]

I don't JUST post when I'm depressed. I post MORE when I'm depressed. Or tired or ill. Although their's an inbetween area of depression htat I post at, cause when I'm really realy depressed I can't work up the energy to be interested in anything.

On the other hand, I have a friend who spends most of her evening online. Her shrink said that if you spend more than a few hours a day online that you're depressed and it's a way of avoiding reality. She's a single mom of two, and the dad of her tykes is out of the picture. She's working to put herself through college, and her grandmother calls her daily to tell her what a screw up she is, and what a rotten mom. My thought was, with everything that's going on in her life, what the hell is wrong with avoiding reality for a bit every night? How is getting online any different than reading or watching tv? She meets her responsiblities, she gets her stuff done, she takes care of her kids, so who cares?

 

[FurryFury]

I agree Graceanne!

As long as she is taking care of her real life commitments then it's nobody's business how she spends her leisure time. Oh the other hand, if she is not getting out in the real world because she feels as if she has a social life online that could be damaging to her. I've known folks like that too.

 

[Marquis]

The old "who cares" argument could be applied to any number of issues, from heroin addiction to procrastinating on the dishes.

The truth is I think the internet is a great thing, but it can be a comforting last step to those a few inches away from rock bottom.

 

[DVS]

The old "who cares" argument could be applied to any number of issues, from heroin addiction to procrastinating on the dishes.

The truth is I think the internet is a great thing, but it can be a comforting last step to those a few inches away from rock bottom.

It can also be just something else for a skitzo doctor to show you how sick you are. They have bills to pay, too. Making you seem sick and them with the cure pays for the Lexus. I vote for the "who cares" angle.

Now, I have to go do the dishes.

 

[Xelebes]

There was a time when I got depressed - but I got depressed because I was on the internet too much, not depressed so I used the Internet to qualm it. I post a lot because it is so much easier to blurt out something online than it is in real life and to not be told to shut up. Lately I am finding that I am slowly bringing down the number of hours I spent. At one point I was on the internet for 15 hours of the day and out of that I would make between 40 to 100 posts a day (this was of course before I came to the internet.) Now I find I have to leave the house for 4 to 6 hours before I go on the internet for 6 hours. And it has been going down ever since - but at least I think I'm being more productive in my online time than I was when I spent 15 hours on the internet everyday.