I joined up a week ago, now I can't stop checking my points and my answers for thumbs ups!
2007-07-29 08:18:11 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
If we knew we wouldn't be on here to answer this :)
2007-07-29 08:21:49 · answer #1 · answered by CSSW 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Once contracted, the (at first) seemingly innocuous obsession with Y!A quickly becomes a permanent addiction whose symptoms only get worse as the daily points grow and accumulate....unfortunately at this time there is no known cure on the horizon.
The American Journal of Addiction reports cases of Y!AA (Yahoo! Answers Addiction) whereby certain case studies have eventually forsaken job, family and friends in order to feed into their habit, with the only positive affect to be noted being the on-going, seemingly unstoppable, steady growth of points, levels and the unsuspecting, but always present, Thumbs-up (or, it's Evil Twin, the Thumbs-down) which can appear at any time during a Q&A session and only serves to feed into the patient's psychological dependency on Y!A.
2007-07-29 15:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by GeneL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi, this is my first time on answer after a month or more.
i used to be answer addicted so I stopped to check for a day
then for 2 and so on , soon i was much less intrested in thumbs up and point that are of no use after all.
if you find my english "peculiar" it's because I'm italian, I live in Florence and I LOVE N.Z.
ciao
2007-07-29 15:36:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set a time budget for your activities on the site. Use your answer time as a reward for completing other tasks. I do also agree that with exposure many of us spend less time on the site. This is true in my case.
2007-07-29 15:35:50 · answer #4 · answered by david42 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why stop unless it is interferring with things you need to get done! I love it! I'm addicted to! But I do the things I'm suppose to! Good luck! hugs!
2007-07-29 16:01:34 · answer #5 · answered by bry7josh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'll eventually get old, and you'll find something else to be addicted to. Not a big deal.
2007-07-29 15:25:38 · answer #6 · answered by lyzz115 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it gets old after about 3-5 weeks
2007-07-29 15:21:40 · answer #7 · answered by sooper dooper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you need to realize that there are more important things to life, than yahoo or the internet.
2007-07-29 15:28:31 · answer #8 · answered by roxylee11782 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cant Yahoo Answers is like drugs, once you start you are hooked
2007-07-29 15:21:15 · answer #9 · answered by Betrayed and Insane 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quit cold turkey
2007-07-29 15:21:17 · answer #10 · answered by amelia_0405 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get to a higher level, or try to find something else to do. You'll grow tired eventually.
2007-07-29 15:21:07 · answer #11 · answered by Lola 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋