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Internet habit? Dependency? Addiction? Pop psychology?

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Internet habit? Dependency? Addiction? Pop psychology?

The popular press is full of articles braying news about Internet addiction; try typing "Internet addiction" into the search field of your favorite search engine and start browsing. A Google search in mid-December brought up 768,000 English, French and German pages on the topic. Read full story

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Rogue antivirus lurks behind Google Doodle searches
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2 comments:

Brian Barker said...

Good luck Esperanto

It's a pity that many people do not know that it has become a living language

Your readers may be interested in http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

Anonymous said...

Keep posting stuff like this i really like it