Internet addiction update

Reason keeps an eye on the slippery silliness of internet addiction mania.

Greg Beato begins by identifying an apparently satirical 1995 paper on internet addiction.  Then onward:

Fifteen years down the line, you’d think we’d all be introverted philanderers by now, isolating ourselves in the virtual Snuggie of World of Warcraft by day and stepping out at night to destroy our marriages with our latest hook-ups from AshleyMadison.com. But the introduction of flat monthly fees, online gaming, widespread pornography, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, WiFi, iPhones, netbooks, and free return shipping on designer shoes with substantial markdowns does not seem to have made the Internet any more addictive than it was a decade ago. 

(thanks to Jesse Walker)