(I'm not sure if I am allowed to post in the weekly sketch competition about the internet, so I'm posting this sketch here too)
Sketch - www.internetaholicsanonymous.com
I've been criticised for setting up a Website and blog which enables internetaholics to discuss the impact their addiction to the internet has on work and relationships...
I understand where my critics are coming from, because sure, it's a website itself, so it's contributing to the list of sites that a given internetaholic visits on a regular basis... therefore, contributing to their addiction, impacting even further on relationships and work... but I strongly disagree with the criticism; in actual fact, the effectiveness of my website is backed up by some very basic mathematics. Let me explain...
Firstly, I'm a strong believer that if you admit you have a problem, which obviously an internetaholic is doing by registering on my website and using its various forums to discuss their problem, then you're half way towards solving your problem...
Secondly, I believe that a problem shared is a problem halved... or it is if you only share it with one person... but when you consider that there are approximately 2,000 bloggers currently using our site daily to discuss their problems - the basic maths tells you that if you divide your problem by 2,000, the problem is reduced to 0.05% of its original size! Therefore, by visiting our website daily to discuss your problem with someone in the same situation as you, you're 99.95% of way to solving your internet addiction!
In addition, by increasing our number of daily users, which will continue to grow over time, you're decreasing the size of other peoples problems as the number of bloggers on the site increases... every time a new internetaholic joins, everybody's problem continues to slowly fade away!
As for me, well, my internet addiction is completely cured now... the website earns me a small fortune so I don't really have a job 9-5 anymore to get in the way of my surf time, and I've upgraded the girlfriend, and she doesn't argue cos she's simply grown too accustomed to the lifestyle my bank balance affords us, so I surf when I like!
