[Hawkeye's Girl]

Yes, but that's it. It doesn't matter if it's ICQ or AOL chat or FR or reading fan fic or surfing around or whatever. If you're spending too much time on the net, you're using it to fill a void in your life. Sure, you can do that with just about everything, but the Internet is particularly seductive in the fact that you can tell yourself that you're socializing with a bunch of people when you're really just typing on a screen all by yourself.

[ReveBM]

I hope if I ever became disabled someday and unable to go out, that I would still have access to the internet. Indeed, I would still "really just typing on a screen all by myself", but I think it would add a lot of color to a life that might otherwise be pretty bleak.