Alcoholics Anonymous has proven itself to be an effective method of combatting alcoholism. AA members meet together in order to offer support in each other's struggles to overcome their addiction. The Anonymous in the name suggests that an online community might be just the thing for a group of this sort. After all, it's common knowledge that people can assume bogus identities in cyberspace that protect their "true" identities.

But if internet use is the problem, going online in order to get support to break the habit lacks, shall we say, some basic logic. Actually, it would seem to reinforce the feeling that there's really something positive in being online much of the time. Somehow one gets the feeling that if it's supposed to get you to end your constant internet craving it's not exactly going to work.

Go to: Whatever happened to cold turkey?, or
Go to: Know Thyself, or
Go to: admit we are powerless over the web