Pathological Internet Use."

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It was difficult not to listen to a conversation I heard recently while waiting in the check out line at the grocery store. Two women were joking that baseball, cars and beer no longer bring sheer delight to their husbands. You see, their husbands now spend hour after hour typing away "doing who knows what on that Internet." In fact, when one of the men laughs, he says, "LOL, LOL." Yikes! (For uninitiated, LOL is Internet shorthand for "laughing out loud.")

No doubt, the Internet has changed the leisure habits of men and women — and even children. Too much of any one thing can be bad for anyone, and such is the case with what the clinicians call "Pathological Internet Use."