You’re trying to source some data for a report you need to get out urgently.
You click your web browser which opens to your default page, say BBC news and before you get the chance to Google whatever it is you wanted to lookup, a headline catches your eye…
Click headline… read report… follow link…read report… Google subject… Watch YouTube video… send link to friends… show colleague…discuss…
An hour later you suddenly notice the time and panic because you still haven’t finished that report!
And how about the “live feeds”? During the last two Tests, how many cricket fans could deny having a quick look every now and then to check the score, only to sit staring at the page waiting for the next update, just in case another wicket has gone down…
“I speak as an addictive personality; I think one saves an awful lot of time not having the internet”.
Wise words perhaps then from Richard Ingrams, editor of the Oldie magazine and one of the most prominent "digital deniers" when speaking on BBC 4’s Today programme, today.
So whilst most of us cannot imagine life without the internet, perhaps this just underlines his belief that the internet is indeed just "another addiction".
