In a nutshell - What is this about?

I created this blog for those who are interested on Internet Addiction and my request to Linden Lab to display a cautionary note mentioning Internet Addiction to the people signing in.

After all this time, this has become just a way to place this on the conversation. This is in a nutshell all I strive for.


Your liberty to read or leave its not denied on this space.


Virtual communities have enormous potential and will be part of many people's life's and work. So we need to take a thoughtful approach towards this. SL has an extraordinary pull and this phenomenon can result in dramatic damage to people who develop an addictive attachment to them.

  1. People joins in with no knowledge of this phenomenon
  2. Awareness of a danger helps reduce its potential harm
  3. Any tool to display this reality, might prevent those who read it

All ideas an opinions are welcome, posts with foul or offensive language might be deleted. Some information and videos might be disturbing for some people please be advised.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Will a warning label be effective?

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 initiative aims at informing people about this phenomenon. Not to cure it, not to stop them.
I think this is the least we can do, towards awareness, and not such a big deal as we might be making of, for instance in 1982 the FDA (United States Federal Drugs Administration) requested food manufacturers to voluntarily label the sodium content of their products.

Some research points out to positive results
Graphic cigarette warning labels serve as an effective smoking cessation intervention. The findings add to the growing literature on health warnings and provide strong support for the effectiveness of Canada’s tobacco labeling policy.

Some research mentions labels don't not show results
This one analyzed labels on alcoholic beverages, and compared Warning Labels to other media like television and education and concluded it does not show results in comparison to them. This leaves us with yet a larger problem because for us there is no single mechanism of awareness at all!
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