Do you use the internet a lot?

[Harryprice]

There is allegedly a link between heavy internet use and depression. I suspect there is also a link between depression and having a grim life. Perhaps people go on the internet to forget their miserable circumstances?

[Tony Williams]

I use the internet for several hours each day for work and leisure. I'm happy now, but I'd certainly be depressed if I couldn't get on-line any more!

[Croydon Bob]

The BBC article stresses that it is only a link, "Now we need to investigate the nature of that relationship and consider the issue of causation." Many of today's tabloids have gone for the "internet causes depression" sensationalism.

[asthmatic camel]

There is allegedly a link between heavy internet use and depression. I suspect there is also a link between depression and having a grim life. Perhaps people go on the internet to forget their miserable circumstances?

Maybe social anxiety, which affects many depressives, means that the internet is a non-threatening way of communicating with others? Just a thought.

[Harryprice]

Maybe social anxiety, which affects many depressives, means that the internet is a non-threatening way of communicating with others? Just a thought.

Non-threatening? What about Croydon Bob?

[Croydon Bob]

Non-threatening? What about Croydon Bob?

Make that unfounded accusation again and I'll cut your limbs off!

If you think I'm threatening then you haven't wandered far out into the wilds of the interweb. David Mabus, for instance, trolls around the net threatening to kill atheists and skeptics. Compared to the scum that you get in some forums I'm a lovely cuddly little fluffkin.

[Harryprice]

Maybe social anxiety, which affects many depressives, ...

I wonder how much 'social anxiety' is really the inability to talk trite nonsense, err sorry, I meant small talk.

[chaggle]

Non-threatening? What about Croydon Bob?

Aww... And I so enjoyed having provided Bob's signature for a couple of months..........

(Maybe he'll just add this to his current one...........)

[Croydon Bob]

(Maybe he'll just add this to his current one...........)

>sigh<

[Croydon Bob]

>sigh<

Too much? Too big?

How big can a signature get?

[edit - way too big, there's a flaw right there]

[chaggle]

OMG I've created a monster!!!

[Croydon Bob]

OMG I've created a monster!!!

I've changed it back again now, so nobody else will ever know (especially polomint).

[Edit: although we do now have the weirdness of me quoting Harry in a post before he says the quote. It looks odd if you read down this page]

[Graham Lappin]

....I suspect there is also a link between depression and having a grim life...?

Classic cause and effect argument