Are You Married to the Internet?

This driver is using two phones at once

Apparently a lot of young Germans are or at least they’d ditch their spouse for the internet:

German twenty-somethings would ditch their spouses and do without a car in a heartbeat if they had to choose between having them or Internet access or a mobile phone, according to an industry study.

In a survey by German broadband association Bitkom around 84 percent of respondents aged 19-29 said they would rather do without their current partner or an automobile than forego their connection to the Web.

I consider myself a nethead but this is scary.  Is the internet causing us to no longer care about each other?  Do we love our machines more than our loved ones?  Or is it the people inside the machines that we love?

Addicted to the Internet (mocumentary)

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