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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (32013)	11/10/2009 11:07:33 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

'Scourge' is for many netizens an apt descriptor for some individuals, but certainly not for all. For example: Adding to my trailing observations in #msg-26081133, where it was once true that moms and dads would miss seeing their children grow up because they were workaholics and spent 17 hours per day out of the house, today they stay at home but have augmented their original affliction by tethering themselves indivisibly to virtual clouds through a myriad of media attachments. Generally "choice" exists in a pre-addictive state. Once addicted, however, the rewired brain takes no prisoners, and may often require intervention. For the Internet addict, it's no longer a matter of waiting for the next power blackout alone for a brief respite or reprieve to get back to painting that fence or taking the kids out to the movies. Not even getting out in the wild or away from one's home for a spin in the car, or flying 30kft above the earth or sailing the lake for a day. Not even doing an [(18*2) + 9]. They're connected throughout all of those erstwhile diversionary activities. So yes, it's a scourge for some. Likewise, it's a scourge when the speaker or moderator in front of a group has intentions of discussing an important issue through the use of civilized discourse, only to find that he or she must now share the attention of the group with a half-dozen or more virtual interlopers in the form of Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube (earphones are a dead giveaway), etc., where often the prospect of a new idea is immediately challenged by someone in the group citing data from double-blind tests and opinion polls that say it can't be done even before the speaker's had an opportunity to fully disclose a new approach to achieving it. ------