No, let me be serious for a moment: When I am speaking of obsessive behavior, I want to differentiate that from OCD. OCD is the repetitive 'ritualistic' behavior Howard Stern suffered from, for example. You don't think you closed the door right, so you do it over and over again.
No, when I speak of obsessive behavior, it's not that. I get obsessive over a subject: Freeping or studying physics or handgunning or loving a woman or training a dog. I get 'addicted' to any of these things. I'm a very addictive personality. You could give me a paper clip and three bits of fluff and I would get addicted to it.
That's what I meant as well. We know the "average" person doesn't know nearly as much about the news and politics as FReepers do, but....
Could "normal" people sit at a computer screen for hours at a time? Do "normal" people, even if they aren't sitting at the computer, need to keep checking back during the day to make sure they haven't missed any breaking news or been pinged to something?
"My name is Amelia, and I'm a FReeper."
You know this for a fact?