Is it normal that i am addicted to google?

I like typing a few words and look at some pretty weird suggestions...

I type "Why is"
Best suggestion:
"Why is there a dead Palestinian lying on my couch?"

I do the exact same thing. I came across this by googling "googling random shit before sleeping" just now and its 3am and I have to wake up in 4 hours and without 10 hours of sleep my day is ruined and I cant study. Why do I keep on doing this to myself?

Haha, like many others, I got here by googling. For me, it was "I have a googling problem."

I look many things up on wikipedia and I don't consider it strange. I like being the guy who's always ready to jump in with random facts. However, I also have a habit of typing all my random thoughts into Google, especially late at night, and seeing what pops up. But I always end up mad at random people on Yahoo answers, or just dissatisfied because the great algorithm interpreted what I typed in the wrong way. I feel strongly that I need someone to talk to, or at least a journal to write in or something, but for some reason I keep turning to Google. Even more disturbing, if nothing comes up, I force myself to forget what I was thinking – subconsciously I feel like if it's not on the Internet, it's not important. I am a pretty introverted person anyway, so I feel kind of blocked off, even in social situations, and googling doesn't help much.

When I read your post it was like I was reading my very own words. I have never used the phrase, "You took the words right out of my mouth," literally until now.

I don't have any suggestions, tips, tools, advice, etc. After I Google'd "why am i so addicted to google??" low and behold the link to your post was first on the list. I didn't even have a membership on this site...I created one just so I could tell you that if you are definitely NOT alone.

And since I just signed up, I have no idea when you posted your question (don't see any dates) so I apologize if that ship has sailed. If too much time hasn’t passed though, I’d love to know if you received any words of wisdom that you could share with me. Thanks and good luck!

I do that too.

i have the same problem! whenever im bored, ill just google something random, like funny pictures ill keep clicking on links to more websites with funny pictures, and before i know it, it would be 2:30 in the morning and ill have to get up for work in about 5 hours!

I get so off track by google till my eyes hurt from reading all the info I had thought of very randomly. Never before has so much information been available for us to tap into, and it's instant. I grew up during the 80's and we never had anything like this. Google has profound impacts on our daily living. There is almost no mystery to many things I may have found mysterious. Your not alone by no means. Your engaged into something much bigger than you. It's a huge collective unconscious .. Carl Jung would have loved this.

I googled alot of my thoughts for many weeks or months til I started noticing I was googling alot of my thoughts and I just ended up googling"looking up every thought on google" and wrote - It's a good way to use time other than watching tv or something or playing games I look different things up all the time all the ideas or thoughts I got I check them all go deep with them and figure it out If something's on your mind google it cause no point in thinking about it and letting the thought dissapear

type: gambling addiction
Click: im feeling lucky

I too became so addicted to google that I would have too many tabs open and now they are frozen. I have to use another window or another google account. I am hoping this is a good sign that I won’t be developing alzheimer’s or dementia anytime soon at least.

I found this site by searching for others with an addiction to researching. I don't just Google anything I don't know, I also have my own library at home that keeps growing. Before ordering any book off Amazon, I will read all the reviews listed (for 3 stars), then I will research the author, then I research the book, before ever finalizing the buy. When there is a debate, people often are shocked that so much information is in my head. I mentally save info about different things, and then pair them up when needed to think outside the box on issues. For example, I researched microbiology because in my head it was needed for researching geology, etc. Or I'll research the latest on Bill Cosby, not because I care about show stars...in fact I don't even watch tv. But just because I researched sexism, misogyny, etc. Its sort of like a mental webbing of information. If I want to find a recipe....I can't just pick any recipe, I have to research the recipe for authentication. I wanted to know about real estate investments, I went on Wikipedia and studied every single Chinese real estate guru. Wiki didn't suffice because some parts were wrong, so I had to go to other sources. I'm also addicted to researching the national archives, actually many different archives. Sometimes my brain won't shut off, and it keeps me up till 4 am. When I go backpacking, canoeing, skiing, camping, I don't have internet connection, and I don't miss my phone having signal, I'm just fine.....but that's because I'm busy, brought books or do field research. I'll take studies of plants, rocks, etc. I don't stop researching a topic, until I've researched it to death. For example, recently I researched a small village in France, I researched taxes, holidays, festivals, recipes, restaurants, the bus schedule, train schedule, the distance between the village and a major city, the average temps, activities, property for sale, etc.

It came as no surprise that my google search "I am addicted to google" brought me here. It wasn't until the last few years it started in a very mild way. I learned that if you ask something the right way you can really get the exact answer youre looking for. Your keywords obviously are crucial and its almost a form of art to be able to have a really efficient google search that narrows right in on a specific answer.

Anyway, as if that didn't sound bad enough - my google searches in this past year have grown rapidly. I have always been an entrepreneur and have given a shot at 5 businesses that in one way or another didn't work out and turned into a learning lesson. This past year I've had a very successful year in my most recent endeavor and I've never used google so much in my entire life. Especially in the past 3-4 months. In a world of endless questions truing to effectively run a business, google has an answer for everything, It's crazy. YouTube tutorials are also incredibly useful.

My business is seasonal and I've been so stressed I can't ever sleep. So I find myself playing Netflix all night in the background while my mind goes off in really random (or not so random and rather repetitive), and very long google search quests. It seems that one question conveniently leads to another. Everything is connected. My biggest obsession, celebrities net worth. It's absolutely facinating. Also anything that has to do with reptilians and the illuminati.

But all in all, nearly every last question that pops up in my head leads to a google search. It's just so much information. I like to know the answer to every question I have rather than be bothered by not knowing something, especially if it's something that peaks my interest. Oh yedh, one more, AMAZON! Even worse cause you end up spending money!!!

If the internet goes off for a day do you have withdraw symptoms?
I know I do.

I google everything. For instance, I'm laying in bed with my window open, smelling the fresh crisp air, when I decide to take to google to find out the benefits of opening one's windows. I learned all about "Sick Building Syndrome", stale air, indoor air pollution, cross breezes, etc and when I felt satiated by that new information, I decided to move on. When I move on from one search to another, all I need is to look around me or pull something from my head. I'm never bored.

Of course, when we say we're addicted to google, we're really just addicted to browsing the web. I especially like to browse using Google's "discussions" tab/filter. I'm a major "lurker". I love reading conversations - everybody brings different things to a discussion and, as a Klonopin-popping introvert, I feel like I'm interacting without having to actually do so. I think this "addiction" to information can be detrimental to my relationship at times. I could be having the time of my life, reading about huge dermoid cysts or the life of Keanu Reeves, but to my fiancé, I'm just lying in bed staring at a cell phone. So I force myself out of the spectacle and away from Google to go play board-games or watch Breaking Bad with him so he doesn't feel so lonely, but the truth is I'd be perfectly content spending the next 5 hours on the internet.

So while it's common, perhaps even "normal", it certainly isn't healthy if it's making you neglect other spheres of your life.

It's okay, you are learning new thing and will be smarter everyday! Keep up the good work.

OMG.. I need to stop google-ing. Need to finish up writing my thesis but seems my subconcious mind always prone to this website.

Focus! Focus! Focus!

I have a Facebook and South Park addiction so I know EXACTLY what you mean. The Internet can be very addicting. But I think the more time you spend on a recreational activities the more likely you're going to like it and eventually it could lead to an addiction. But just know that being addicted to google isn't such a bad thing because you are more likely then not learning things.

If I were you I would limit myself to either finishing all my homework first and then researching to my heart's content until it's bed time or spending 1 hour a night researching and/or using one day on the weekend to research and the other day to do homework. You can even make a Google Research time log and try to not go over 2 hours a day.
But just dont forget to socialize with people...

You can also go to the library and check out book which I would guess not as bad for your eyes as staring at a screen for hours on end.

But you must remember that you are in school and that is the most important thing to focus on right now.