How addicted to the internet are you?

Other than the fact that we have certain addictions, who thought that we would be capable of being addicted to the internet? We’ll look at you now when you are mid way through the day at work in your office, not even knowing how much of your time you have been on the internet.
   
Now, sometimes being on the internet at an employer is for good reason, such as communicating to other branches of the business or suppliers, retailers, etc via email. Maybe, some of the transactions that must be done is through the internet.

The internet does have its advantages for a business. Everything is done faster than ever before. Businesses can pretty much connect worldwide for a business. However, this privilege can have its nasty downturn on a business because there is so much out there.

It can come to a time, you are on the computer at work and then your boss comes in to drop off something and you immediately hit the exit button on the page you had pulled up to look like you were working, or you might be too slow and get caught. Imagine if the business had visitor such as stock holders come by, they would say to hell with putting my money for this company if this is how things run here.

The most popular distraction would have to be social networks. how else would you communicate with someone during work? You could with a cell phone, however, it might be company policy to not use your cellphone at all other than business purposes. So when you have your own desk, you have a computer, so then you have the internet.

Outside the office, it can even get worse, especially in a production floor like one that I worked for after my senior year in high school before I left for UNCC. You would imagine how easy it is to access the internet now and days, especially since technology has progressed so much. There was a time when cell phones were flip phones and now we have cellphones that do almost EVERYTHING! I was working at a plastic recycling plant on the production floor, and there were about 10 occasions that could of resulted in forklift accidents due to the use of a cellphone to check their facebook notifications. Others that did the same would slow down production.

What is being done in the office is the computers would be equipped with content filter software to prevent employees from being able to access certain websites that doesnt relate to work. Where I was at, there are many parts of the building that is designed to block cellphone signal so that the use of a cellphone is diminished. It didnt workout so well since the managers on the floor couldnt communicate with the managers in the office so now the plant is equipped with security cameras.

So a crazy thought of wondering if you’re addicted to the internet, you might want to find out for yourself.