Internet Addiction Disorder (hmmm)

I just read about this 'new' psychiatric term which has been juggled around in modern psych research for the past few years. It's called IAD, or "Internet Addiction Disorder".

Dr. Grohol adds his own hypothesis complete with explanatory flowchart:

new online activity -> stage 1 (enchantment) -> stage 2 (disillusionment) -> stage 3 (balance)

stage 1 - obsession
stage 2 - avoidance
stage 3 - normal

Apparently the problem occurs when users get stuck in the 'enchantment phase'... o_0

What then, constitutes normal Internet use?

Another interesting article - Is the Internet Addictive, or Are Addicts Using the Internet?

Okay, gotta log off. Barely have time to blog these days... lol...