The 5 dangers of being chronically online.

The average person spends 7 hours a day online, and many people spend much more. What are the side effects of being chronically online?

What a nifty little device! I mean, I can text my friends. I can look up literally any song I want. Hell, I can find the most beautiful women on the planet in the blink of an eye. I mean it’s so easy, what could possibly go wrong?

“There is a high, the addict admits this. But after a while, that high is harder to get, eventually nothing else matters. Your habit is so instilled you lose your mental and physical control.”

So I’m increasinly hearing this idea about being “chronically online”. After all it’s not really uncommon anymore for people (specifically young people) to spend the majority of their waking hours on the internet in one form or another. The average person now spends over six hours per day on the internet. I don’t know what your criteria for being chronically online is, but several hours is kind of a lot. It’s my personal opinion, the internet on a macro scale is overall a bad thing. It advanced so rapidly that our human brains did not have the time to adapt, so it caused all this irreparable chemical damage and I don’t think we ever will have the time to adapt. The damage its caused will probably lead western society to collapse before we’re even able to figure it out. But it is what it is. We’ve become reliant on the internet in so many ways. We…