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Video: What is addictive about "chatting"?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/17/2008
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Marc F. Kern
Marc F. Kern, Ph.D., has over 30 years of clinical psychotherapy experience helping people overcome their self-defeating habits and acquire the insights and skills to live happier lives.
He has a deep personal understanding of the addictive process and continues his lifelong research of contemporary treatments for addiction and other destructive behaviors.
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Well, what becomes addictive about chatting is what becomes addictive about other things.
There is a potential for arousal, feeling good, and sharing a naughty concept; it all has to do with the ability to sort of change how we feel inside.
It's just another mechanism to change the way we feel. It's a product of modern technology, and it is a way of people from very different parts of the world can exchange knowledge and information.
They never would have run across one another before; it's a very safe way, and it's sort of addicting, because it's sort of a fun feeling to exchange this information.
Never in the course of man's history have we had this ability to exchange knowledge, and to talk about things in a real time way.
The old days we used to send letters, and that used to take months. Now it's instantaneous, the exchange, and therefore the scope of the discussion, could be monumentally larger.



