Disconnect Anxiety

diniscans:

”27 percent of the population suffers increased levels of anxiety when separated from their cell phones or the Internet, and that a further 41 percent suffer occasional anxiety due to communications blackout.”

Here is a questionairre to help you find out if you might suffer from this malady:

1. Strongly or somewhat agree with the statement “My cell phone goes everywhere I go?”
2. Use your wireless device “frequently” at home instead of your home phone?
3. Strongly or somewhat agree with the statement “When I leave home without my cell phone, I feel cut off”?
4. Spend four hours or more using the Internet—work or personal—per day on average?
5. Used IM (instant messenger) in the last week?
6. Have a Facebook profile that you visit at least once a day?
7. Strongly agree with the statement “The world is not as safe as it used to be”?
8. Used a laptop in your living room or bedroom in the last week?
9. Text-messaged on a regular cell or sent email using a BlackBerry, Treo or similar in the evenings or the weekend in the last week?

A positive answer to the first eight is worth one point, and the last question is worth two points. An overall score of seven or more suggests “you are a candidate to feel elevated levels of anxiety if disconnected even for a short period of time.”

(via Ars Technica) 

This is me. I wish it weren’t, but it’s me. Although I do really enjoy camping (probably to get away from all the reasons listed above) it’s not something I get to do as much as I’d like.