But only if you don't read Fudzilla
According to a team of Leeds University psychologists, some 1.2 percent of people are internet addicts and many of them are depressed. Reading tech tabloids was linked to bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
However, researchers warn that they're really not sure whether
addiction caused depression, or if it was the other way around. In any
case, they concluded most internet users did not suffer any mental
health problems. We guess they don't read the same forums we do.
Researchers based their results on 1,319 responses to questionnaires
and they found 18 of them were addicts, i.e. persons who replaced true
social interaction with chat rooms and social networking services.
You can find out more here, and we made the tech tabloid bit up. Reading Fudzilla is generally good for you, although it's known to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
