The CT hits the street: Internet addiction

Q1: How many hours do you spend online per day?

Q2: For which means do you use the Internet?

Q3: What is your favorite Web site?

Q4: What would you do if you didn’t have Internet access?

Q5: What type of computer do you own, and where do

you use it most?

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Brian Dentel, 21, Forensic Science, Junior

Q1: Two to three hours

Q2: Schoolwork and recreational use

Q3: Yahoo.com

Q4: Watch TV and play games

Q5: Dell and IBM, one’s a desktop and the other’s a laptop

 Thumbnail imageBrian Nevetral, 23, Sports Management,

Senior

Q1: All of the time. Four hours

Q2: Check e-mail and talk online

Q3: Sportsline.com

Q4: Read the newspaper

Q5: New Dell at home

 Thumbnail imageTiana Burton, 20, Psychology, Senior

Q1: Three or maybe two

Q2: Research

Q3: hotghettoness.com. It shows funny videos with crazy people.

Q4: Watch TV

Q5: Compaq Presario at home that acts crazy.

 Thumbnail imageSharon Levine, 20, Pre-nursing,

Transfer student

Q1: Not a lot. Maybe 30 minutes

Q2: School and e-mail

Q3: I don’t have one

Q4: Just read. Write letters rather than e-mail

Q5: Dell desktop at home

 Thumbnail imageJessica Ta, 18, Film, Sophomore

Q1: Four, five, six hours. Depends

Q2: Mostly talking, e-mail and Blackboard

Q3: Don’t have one

Q4: Hang out with my roommates, go to the library

Q5: Dell desktop, used at home

 Thumbnail imageMichael Bell, 20, Film, Sophomore

Q1: Used to spend lots of time—three to four hours; now an hour or less

Q2: Mostly communicating, entertainment, don’t really use it for news (sometimes I do), and shopping

Q3: My homepage, archive.org; has short films and documentary clips. An assessment of how our culture has changed

Q4: Kill someone

Q5: Macintosh desktop, at home

 Thumbnail imageRebecca Bosler, 19, Business, Sophomore

Q1: Six hours including homework

Q2: Normally a lot of searches for research and AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)

Q3: Google, I search everything

Q4: That would be horrible. I would go to the library.

Q5: Hewlett-Packard laptop, mostly in my house

 Thumbnail imageRa-Yeon Jang, 19, Arts, First-year

Q1: Three hours

Q2: Reading blogs

Q3: zyword.cu.kr

Q4: Doing homework or something

Q5: Hewlett-Packard laptop at home