Mony Markova on Internet Addiction

The Museum is back on a 512 lot. My first building efforts, many mistakes. Bono Box in SL - best show in world. Just befor...

In a nutshell! I left SL for many months, many, six months at a time, maybe a year, then came back, then many months, this is not particul...

The end came for me a while ago -the end as an addict to Second Life that is. I allowed myself to hide there for so long, at such a high pri...

Yes, this blog is to help you find a way out of SL, if you find yourself addicted to it, or to learn about it if you are otherwise intereste...

After some recounting of my times in SL... This is a brief remembreance of things that kept me busy in world. The first "job" I ...

Yes! Finnally here. I am not writing in any rush, actually coming here to blog its very difficult lately mostly because I am so far off SL....

I have posponed this one for months, in part I have been away from SL a little more and in part I did not want to talk much about this stage...

After all this time of going around addiction, healing, re-lapsing and trying to act againts it, a year has already gone by along a few with...

Immersion its when you have passed a few days, the controls of the -not so friendly- user interface are learned now, you know how to fly, mo...

The intention in adding scenes of what I lived its to portray the experience, in hope that readers get more information to develop judgments...

It was on those early days of initial exploration, where the key word has to be curiosity , "killer curiosity for all us cats". Ea...

It starts for many different reasons. Some come asked by their boss either to see what is going on here or because they have a virtual offic...

With U.S. huge T.V. star Dr. Phil, Internet Gaming Addiction hits the prime time again I only hope this continues to bring light to this top...

Comprehensive Introduction to Internet Addiction - with Symptoms Internet Addiction Guide Issues for DSM-V: Internet Addiction Take the Onli...

The Center for Online Addiction offers hope and valuable resources to those seeking information about Interne...

Now there is people claiming that the only way to get out of SL is to cause LL to ban them permanently by performing acts against others! ...

This videos from youtube, display people's view on Second Life, I find them particularly telling. What we do 80% of the time in SL - Ouc...

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I know people would like to find a definitive solution! But in order to understand this petition we need to know what it is aiming at. This ...

To this day, no communication or interest has been acknowledged by LL. I believe they know about it, since I been told even on their inspira...

For a simple reason. In all other spaces I participate I try to separate me from the issue in order not to create noise around the main topi...

I think we can identify and develop the solutions in 3 levels: Preventive Controlling Healing My proposals are completely towards prevention...

After the Awareness Addiction Group and In-world office failings. I decided I was to use an opportunistic approach and try to send the messa...

Yet another approach. This one is to be closed shortly since the results are not evident. All members -some 36- appear to have left SL or ...

Bad idea. Most likely. Also fuels the notion of me being an addict needing a crusade to get my Fix! So lame. Working with 2 of my best frien...

And its writers - If you came here from there, welcome and be assured you don't need to agree with me to post here at all.

This are the top 7 repetitive ideas I get from people explaining to me "why I am so wrong". #1 No one reads TOS. (Terms of Serv...

Several, one of them its the anonymity of platform . This provides great possibilities but also enhances people behaving differently than th...

Well I am not connected at all most of the day. I dont even log in for weeks! But if I have extra time this season, actually yes, at this pa...

Whats a normal user versus a heavy user and where is addiction? I don't have the answers for that one. But I suggest the analysis of thi...

Yes, I am a believer of the possibilities of Second Life (TM) specifically, so when I saw this GREAT issue needing to be addressed, I became...

No. I think I am close to having gone well beyond my call of duty! This might encourage, my counterparts, but this one its on its last legs....

I am just a regular citizen. I think a regular citizen has full right to ask for this. I don't think I am special at all. I know I have ...

I hope I am not crazy. I don't rule it out completely, however I never been diagnosed with anything such like that, medicated or even su...

No, many people focuses successfully on the great positives of the platform, and has not problem with their personal use of it.

It is when a person becomes too obsessed with a virtual community, to the point of affecting her regular life by her recurring abuse of time...

I believe addiction virtual communities such as Second Life (TM) its a reality , and its amazingly powerful -its a phenomenon, a by-effect o...

So many ways to characterize this BLOG, however it has emerged by the need to explain my reasons, to provide detailed information, all in a ...