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There's a fine line between being distracted by the Net andactually being addicted to it. Either way, your productivity--andbusiness--suffers. "With a start-up business, there's athreat of playing rather than working," says Kimberly S.Young, owner of the Center for On-Line Addiction in Bradford,Pennsylvania.
Young says the warning signs of Internet addiction are similarto those of other addictions: "a preoccupation with theInternet while offline, a constant anticipation of the next onlinesession, lying about the extent of use to others. For compulsiveusers, their whole life becomes the Internet."
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