经济学人下载:Addicted? Really?上瘾了?真的?

Pornography is hardly new, either, but the internet makes accessing it much easier than ever before. When something can be summoned in an instant via broadband, whether it is a game world, an e-mail inbox or pornographic material, it is harder to resist. New services lead to new complaints. When online auction sites first became popular, talk of “eBay addiction” soon followed. Dr Young says women complain to her now about addiction to Facebook—or even to “FarmVille”, a game playable only within Facebook.

色情作品由来已久，但是网络让人们更易接触到色情资源。无论是游戏还是电子邮件，或是色情资源，只要能够通过宽带轻松获得，人们就更难抵挡其诱惑。新型的服务滋生新抱怨。当初线上拍卖开始流行时，随之而来的是“eBay上瘾”的说法。杨博士表示，现在很多女性向她抱怨，Facebook和只能在Facebook上玩的“FarmVille”游戏让她们非常上瘾。

Treatment centres have popped up around the world. In 2006 Amsterdam’s Smith & Jones facility billed itself as “the first and, currently, the only residential video-game treatment program in the world”. In America the reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program claims to treat internet addiction, gaming addiction, and even “texting addiction”. In China, meanwhile, military-style “boot camps” are the preferred way to treat internet problems. After several deaths, however, scrutiny of the camps has intensified.

这样一来，治疗中心在全球如雨后春笋般出现。2006年，位于阿姆斯特丹的史密斯与琼斯治疗中心自称其为“目前世界上第一家也是唯一一家居住式线上游戏治疗中心”。美国reSTART网瘾康复项目声称能治疗网瘾、游戏瘾，甚至还有“短信瘾”。而在中国，人们更倾向于通过军事化“训练营”戒除网瘾。但是，经过几起受训者死亡事件之后，对训练营的监管也更加严格。

Yet many people like feeling permanently connected. As Arikia Millikan, an American blogger, once put it, “If I could be jacked in at every waking hour of the day, I would, and I think a lot of my peers would do the same.” Bob LaRose, an internet specialist at Michigan State University, doesn’t believe her. In his research on college students, he found that most sense when they are “going overboard and restore self-control”. Less than 1% have a pathological problem, he adds. For most people, internet use “is just a habit—and one that brings us pleasure.”

许多人喜欢一直保持连接的感觉。就像美国一位博主阿里克亚.米里坎曾经说过，“如果可以的话，我愿意在我醒着的每时每刻都在线，我相信很多同龄人也是一样的。”然而，密歇根州立大学互联网专家鲍勃.拉罗斯表示质疑。在他对大学生的研究中，鲍勃发现当学生们“一旦玩的太过头了，就会开始自控。”只有不到1%的学生会出现病态的问题，鲍勃补充道。对于大部分人来说，使用网络“只是一种习惯——并且是一种带来快乐的习惯。”