Internet addiction

Its an addiction most techies (and a host of others) suffer from. The addiction to spend long hours on the internet. Ever since I bought a laptop here , I have fallen a victim to this addiction too. There is no doubt that Internet is great , with so much of information and connectivity to friends & relatives. However,If I look at Being Online more scientifically , I define a "threshold time" on internet . Beyond the threshold time whatever time I spend online results in very less value addition. But every time I keep Breaking my " Threshold Time".

I remember a roomie of mine who always used to be online on messengers at work and used to come back from work and immediately (Without even having refreshments) go online again at home.Different people have different sub addictions.Some are addicted to messengers , Some to News sites,Some to online games,Some to emails,some to blogging (?),some to newsgroups and so on. I was surprised to read about an institute which offers counseling to internet addiction.

So my birthday resolution (Today is my birthday ! ) is not to exceed my "Threshold time" from now on.