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"Special Reserve's Uk chat forums...addictive???"

"My name is Cong and I am a chat-a-holic"#
"Hi cong..."

Most of you a probably tittering at the very idea of chat forums annonymous. But the addictive nature of these forums is becoming an ever increasing problem. Recently I have found myself spending every spare minute in these forums, either desrperately trying to up my position in the top 100 posters from the last 30 days leaderboard, or even worse than that, causing my eyes and my brain untold damage in my desperate attempts to get another hit of 'GAD'.

These endless hours spent desperately trying to find something funny to say, has taken it's toll on all other aspects of my life. My managerment career in Championship Manager 2001/02 has sufferend and i am now stuck with Farnborough.

My physical health has detriorated too. My eyes are red raw and the ends of my fingers sore from typing.My butt has doubled in size where I have been sat on it all day and night and my friends have ostracised me.

Therefore I think these forums should henceforth carry suffienct warnings about the effect they can have on your life. If not I will be going to the newspapers to alert people of this alarming new trend.

"My name is Cong and I am a chat-a-holic"#
"Hi cong..."

Most of you a probably tittering at the very idea of chat forums annonymous. But the addictive nature of these forums is becoming an ever increasing problem. Recently I have found myself spending every spare minute in these forums, either desrperately trying to up my position in the top 100 posters from the last 30 days leaderboard, or even worse than that, causing my eyes and my brain untold damage in my desperate attempts to get another hit of 'GAD'.

These endless hours spent desperately trying to find something funny to say, has taken it's toll on all other aspects of my life. My managerment career in Championship Manager 2001/02 has sufferend and i am now stuck with Farnborough.

My physical health has detriorated too. My eyes are red raw and the ends of my fingers sore from typing.My butt has doubled in size where I have been sat on it all day and night and my friends have ostracised me.

Therefore I think these forums should henceforth carry suffienct warnings about the effect they can have on your life. If not I will be going to the newspapers to alert people of this alarming new trend.

Damn right they're addictive, sometimes I have 3 windows open, one for each forum I'm in. One here and one in Sony right now in fact. This is so I can keep up with what's gonig on all over.

It helps my word count too...

At any one time I have 4 windows (or tabs, muahah) open. I wrote a story about FOG addiction but opening a Word document is just too much hassle.

i have to agree the forums are very addictive, i cant even use my computer anymore with out logging on to the sr website.

I agree that these forums are addictive, but I have a problem, in that I don't have the TIME to write loads of posts etc as I'm busy doing other things or I'm writing long posts. I've never had more than one window open at one time, but I may try it, to bump up my post count, as I can reply to two posts at once then, correct? I now have a mental image of some dude sitting at his computer, glued to the screen, salivating at the mouth and his parents are shouting at him to come off, but he won't. :P What addiction problems have you all had? Cough it up!

I must win more GADs, if only too match MrHappy's "score"... he won 4 DVDs from his forst 5 reviews!!!! Dah!

But coming back to the point, the forums are great fun... so that's what keeps me coming back

Sonic

yes siree, they are addictive, I managed to get myself up to about the number 11 position in the top posters of the previous 30 days before christmas, then I went cold turkey for 3 weeks and with a change in my class schedule and the snow I can't post here as much.
But I can give up at any time (thats what they all say)

I've been addicted to them for over 650 days now.

Ant wrote:
> I've been addicted to them for over 650 days now.

Yeah, I only know 2 people that have been here longer than you...

And I'm the oldest;)

Sonic