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Too much of PC a bad thing?
Well, at the moment I am addicted to PC. I am losing sleep because of it - in fact it's 1:03 in the morning and I have been on PC since 9:30. O.O I've actually been wasting my holidays inside rather than being outside in the sunshine.
Don't get me wrong I am not dissing PC, to be honest it's my fault. Lol. Spoiler:
Anyway~ Are you or has there been a time where you have been addicted to PC? What where some of the consequences of being on for too long? |
During the summer, I had similar hours, but I wouldn't say I'm addicted to PC. n_n
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Last summer, I stayed online until 5 AM. Never again XD
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I WAS, one year ago. I wasn't ever again; got sick of the mods and the people in general.
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Not that much anymore, but during the summer hellz yea xD
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Oh-ho-HO.
Too much PC is NEVER enough. XD JK. I would say you're going a liiiiiitle overboard, but at least you're enjoying yourself, right? :'D |
I haven't been here for a week yet and I am getting a bit bored. :\ When I have school, I most probably will check things out here for a short time then log out.
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I could say I have been addicted to PC numerous times this year ever since I returned in March. Though, I have to admit, it's the people who I talk to everyday that keep me here, 'Cause I really only come on to talk to them through VM's. If I didn't have any friends here, I probably wouldn't be as addicted like I am now. o3o
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I was, I am slowly becoming less active. But even when I meet my lowest amount of activity possible, I will still be considered very active. @[email protected]
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No, I have never had a PC addiction. I think the most active I've ever been was last spring/summer, when I made a few good friends who kept me company since I was lacking in the RL friend department for that brief time period, but I had plenty of other things to do for fun.
Those friends aren't as active anymore, so nowadays my activity level depends almost solely on the number of threads I feel like posting in that day, and how active my usual hangouts here are. I'll make a small handful of posts a day maximum, though most of the time I only make one or two, or none at all. |
I've only just joined PC and am not addicted yet. Honestly though, I can see myself becoming quite addicted here. I doubt I will be so addicted that I'll 'lose sleep over it' but you never know.
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I've been hopelessly addicted to PC at several points. I eventually managed to forcefully disappear from PC altogether sometime in 2007 and that lasted all of two years before I came back on this account. XD
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I try to leave PC, but I always come back. Dx I don't know why, considering I actually do nothing here.
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I've been addicted to video games before, but I don't think I've ever had a PC addiction. The only reason I'm even on as often as I am is because I don't have the money to go out and do things elsewhere at the moment.
I do believe that being on the computer too much can be bad for you though. |
Hmm, more of an OVP thread, wouldn't you say?
Last year I was on PC constantly. With HG/SS about to be released in Japan and the vast free time I had, I didn't know where else to spend it most of the day. So, I usually resorted to PC with nothing more to do. |
Acctually I don't think I'm addicted to PC.
I do like spending time on it, but i never stay on it late into the night or wake up early to check what's going on on PC. But I do miss it sometimes if I haven't been on it for longer than a day! |
I'm pretty active, but I wouldn't say I'm addicted so much as easily distracted from other things by PC.
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I got addicted once in my vacations. One time, I logged in at 9:00 AM and logged out at midnight.
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I have yet to be addicted to PC lol
Even though I love it, that doesn't mean that I stay up all night on here. Latest I've stayed on here was 'til midnight. |
Well, it's been a month since I joined this place. There are times when I'm addicted to it (to see if a BMGf friend is online) and times when I'm not (not finding good places to post, as well as not seeing any PC friends online).
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I stay on the computer every minute that I'm not out with my friends. My family and I communicate only in passing, it's ridiculous. xD I'd say only a couple of the hours I spend online are dedicated to PC since I'm not that close to anyone here. Most of the time I just idle here while drawing or bothering people over MSN.
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I can say I'm addicted to PC, but school really ruins it. I'm still PC member, nonetheless, and I won't leave PC no matter what. :O
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Yes, I used to stay on all day, but I don't now.
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It'll slowly take away your social life.
Well you asked about the consequences. :/ |
I haven't been outside in 15 years.
PC has consumed me and now I'm trapped in my computer. I would say "help me", but honestly this is pretty fun. |
Umm, I probably am, but for weird reasons. It's like, whenever I'm awake, I feel like I must look after B/W otherwise some spammer will come along and murder it or something, which... ends up with me spending most of the day online :D;
Too much of PC can leave you wishing you hadn't spent all that time online or something, though. |
No, I don't think I can say I've been addicted to PC. I get on for a reasonable time, post, get off at a reasonable time.
Though it's not like I actually get off the internet fml |
I have been dangerously addicted to PC a few times before. In some instances, I averaged 4 hours of sleep and received awful grades. I had to temporarily leave to regain control of my life. Gotta take things slow and relax. Much to our chagrin, we have higher priorities than our activity on a Pokemon forum. :(
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Even though I can live without PC if need be, whenever I have nothing to do or feel like procrastinating, I'll usually be on here, which amounts to me being on here quite a bit. In the past, I have been very addicted, though I learned to take it easy over time.
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You can have too much of a good thing =/
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i have a lot of spare time, and i don't "surf" very many places on the internet so in my spare time i usually end up here. i wouldn't call it an addiction, but my time spent here definitely surpasses that of a moderate user.
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I'm not addicted to PC. As in, I'll jump on usually on a daily basis but if I don't manage to get to the computer for two or three days I'm not going to have withdrawal symptoms or something. PC is entertaining but I don't spend my life on it.
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Well.. right now I don't really have the time to be addicted to PC, I'm not on much except for on my days off work. There-in-lies the point.. XD; on my days off work, or after I get off work, and SOMETIMES before I leave for work.. I'm usually on PC. >A> I mean, yeah I have my reasons, and my activity is less than what it used to be.. Still I'm on it more than I should be at times. I feel like I have staff obligations, and if I weren't on staff, I wouldn't feel like I had to be quite as much, but I'd still be reallll active, and still somewhat 'addicted'. :p
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Addiction to a website is the percentage of time you are in it compared to other sites, not the amount of time overall.
I must, therefore, be crazy addicted to PC, even though I'm not like you staying up to 1:30 only on PC, because if I want to stay up that late it's going to be for a good reason >__> |
I went through the same thing as the OP. For the first few months after I joined I was on pretty much all day (No job, no life etc), then I couldn't get on the internet at all for like 7 months.
Since I came back i've managed to get a job so it hasn't been quite as bad though I have done a couple of all-nighters. Recently I just really haven't been bothered about PC, or the internet for that matter and the amount of shiz going on in my life atm hasn't helped matters. I might get back to posting "regularly" (Meaning back to posting about five times a week) but bleh, who knows. |
I'm not really addicted as such and never have been, but I am quite often seen around here just lurking around watching everyone post and posting for myself. But no, I'm not addicted, but even if I was addicted I'd be proud to be addicted to PokeCommunity. :D
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I used to be a lot more addicted to it than I am now. I was following the "one hour of computer a day" rule at our house until I got modded here back in 2005... >__< I've pulled a few all-nighters here on PC, and in hindsight, it seems a bit silly.
These days, between work, reading other websites, writing, and sometimes video games, I'm not really addicted to PC. If something special and exciting's going on, though, it can still draw me in until the late hours of the night. But that's really rare. Not that I don't like PC, just that I've kind of learned my lesson. I guess. *shrugs* |
It's kind of an addiction to come on here and stay on for a bunch of hours since I have nothing better to do, I actually took a little break from PC recently if anyone realized. xD
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I've been addicted to this place before. But mainly cause my friends online were here. Now I talk with them using other methods and I only come here when I have something to do here. Or I'm bored.
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I was when I first started. It was in the period of the first year I joined but then I realized there are other forums besides PC and I got addicted to them just as I am here
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I'm not addicted to PC by any means, but I will say that I have had two irl relationships that got a bit crashed due to meeting someone on here. One of these cases was a good thing, but really, that's all I am going to say on the matter. Really best to avoid getting addicted to this place, or your real life relations can, and usually will if your significant other knows you're here, suffer.
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No, of course not... *twitches nervously*
I pretty much am addicted to PC, but not to the point where I neglect my homework or my anime watching. But I do compulsively log on just to check for new PM's/VM's even when I'm out of my room. So it's not a bad thing for me.... yet... |
well ill binge pc here and there when im not busy.... mainly when im tryin to get trades done for me and my brothers or from givaways
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I'm not addicted to PokéCommunity at all. Sure, I like to visit here and post a lot but I've never stayed online too long or thought only about it and nothing else. I just see it for what it is - an online community which, in my opinion, is a place to hang out, discuss and relax not get addicted to.
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I'm certainly addicted to PC, I've hit 1000 in what 3/4 months Going for 1500 by 2011
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I'm an addict, and I always will be. ;D
As for is it a bad thing, well, it sometimes makes me not do my homework, but other then that, not really. XD |
Back when I first joined the forums, I was active roughly 6 to 7 hours a day. I used to 'reside' in the ROM hacking forum, and 95% of my posts are there. Sometime around February 2010, I started losing any interest in Pokémon left in me and adding some personal reasons to that, I stopped coming on here and forgot about the place.
So, yeah, I was pretty much addicted to PC back in 2008, but now, not so much, really. |
Well....I guess yes, I mean you don't want to turn out like me ;; to be a vegetable, right?
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