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Strung out online

With Web habits bordering on dependency, what kind of users are we?

One paragraph, followed by 10 minutes of Facebook. Repeat until term paper is finished.

When the information superhighway is nestled cozily at the bottom one’s screen, minimized beneath a blinking cursor on a work-in-progress Word document, the temptation of Web surfing can get the best of just about every homework doer whose favorite games and friends’ social updates are only a click away. »