Yeesh, I didn't even want to bring the internet into it. I was about to claim that I had a really non-addictive personality (have taken up smoking a few times and dropped it again without any pangs, stopped drinking coffee, marijuana sits unsmoked in my sock drawer for years on end, etc), but the internet is a SIGNIFICANT exception to all of that, LJ and twitter particularly. It's a bit like being asked to give up my friends.
I don't think it would be a reasonable expression of asceticism to give up the internet in the sense of being a means of communicating with my friends. But I could imagine giving up randomly surfing around, following links, reading blogs and articles that I find interesting but don't have any personal connection to the authors. That would be hard, because I'm massively addicted, but it might possibly make me a better person or even be spiritually fulfilling. I don't talk about an addiction to socializing with my friends, that's wholly a positive thing.
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