WHERE HAS MY LIFE GONE???? (dooyoo Addiction)

Member Name: Parsley

Product:	dooyoo Addiction
Date:	14/09/00 (117 review reads)
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Advantages: Excellent, it's easy to use, great fun and highly addictive

Disadvantages: I can't use the computer 24 hrs a day!

Oh dear, oh dear what have I got myself into???? I joke. Where has my life gone in the last 5 months? All I have done is dooyoo! I have spent hours here, whole days, weeks and months here! I eat sleep and breathe and even dream dooyoo. My addiction is taking over my life - it’s completely out of control!

Has anyone set up any support groups, detox clinics, advice lines, or written any self help manuals yet? (Come on guys, if someone can find a cure there could be some really serious money in it!)

So how does dooyoo affect my life?
Well, firstly I need a permanent attachment to the Internet with 24 hr a day free calls - some Internet Service providers must have heard about dooyoo and provided the free calls to help us feed our habit! And thanks to them I am not in un-payable debt to BT!

The first thing I do in the morning is check my dooyoo profile, before I’m up, before I’ve had my tea and before the baby wakes! While the computer’s booting up - I’m shaking with anticipation! How many ratings did I get for my new opinion, who has rated me, have any comments been left, how many dooyoo miles do I have? The suspense is unbearable! (and major excitement when any of my opinions got a crown!)
The sad thing is that I am not content with just looking the once, I have to keep refreshing the page and checking my profile several times a day! Just to see if I got any extra ratings! Oh how I wish that I carried a mobile with free 24hr a day calls with access to dooyoo! I could do all my reading/rating while stuck on a bus in the traffic jam or in the queue at the bank!

Once I’ve checked my profile, I then have to see if any of my favourite writers have written new opinions, so I spend hours reading and rating especially if the opinions are long - which most of my friends specialise in (but I’m not blameless in the worlds longest opinions category either!) Reading and rating takes hours. Highly
informative and very useful, but the hours just fly by and I find that at the end of the day, the housework is still sitting there waiting patiently for me to do it!

Next there’s opinion writing! I keep a list of possible opinion ideas by my computer (yes, I know it’s sad, but I can’t help myself - if I don’t write it down - I may forget it! I write about once or twice a week and have to spend time researching and about half a day to a whole day writing and checking the opinion before posting it!

At the end of the day I say to myself 5 more minutes or I’ll just rate this and then go to bed, but 5 minutes turns into 10 minutes which turns into half an hour and before I know it it’s 2am (or later!) and if you think that at the end of the day, when I finally weeping and lamenting switch off my PC can go to sleep and forget about dooyoo - you’re wrong - I have even dreamt about it!

On a more serious note though my hubby is starting to be very unimpressed by how long I spend on the net - he has not fully succumbed to dooyoo addiction and as yet is almost free from it’s magnetic hold! How does he manage without it? I will never know! He doesn’t understand what it is to be in the grip of dooyoo! A while back I suffered the shakes when presented with a cut modem wire (a subtle hint I think!) The shakes were only resolved when I pulled the wire out of the back of the telephone and used that instead (hee hee!)
Oh dear, I am terrible, I can’t help myself and there is no cure for me!
I love dooyoo and that’s all there is to it!

LONG LIVE DOOYOO!


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MY ORIGINAL OPINION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

THE START OF A VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE!

My name is Vicky (Parsley) and I'm a DOOYOO-AHOLIC!
There I've said it, but somehow or other I don't think that this is the first step on the r
oad to recovery! Fortunately I don't think that there is a cure and I'm very unrepentant!
I found this site through the noticeboards at motherandbaby.co.uk - everyone was going on about DOOYOO, so much so that I had to go and investigate ...
Well, that was the start of a very slippery slope, once I had registered and had a bit of advice from other DOOYOOERS I was off. The rest as they say is history. Once I started writing and rating I couldn't stop, but that's not all, I even found myself logging into my account several times a day, just to check and see if my points have gone up or whether anyone has written a comment on one of my opinions. I guess that this probably makes me sound very sad, but since I joined I've been on here every day and if I don't get my fix I get the shakes,(I'm sure I'm not alone!) but the last straw has to be actually dreaming about choosing a title for one of my opinions! Yes, it's true I'm afraid! Oh dear, this dooyoo thing has really gone too far. I'm even sitting here typing while wearing a dooyoo T-shirt, my husband says next I'll have "dooyoo" tattooed on my forehead ... well I won't go THAT far - but perhaps a small tat on my bum - OK I draw the line at that but my dooyoo addiction is a serious problem. My flat is a mess, I can't stay away from my computer, I spend all day thinking "I could write an article on that!", I bounce the baby on my knee while I type and my hubby isn't too impressed with how little attention I've been giving him. (He won't mind the money when I get paid though!) As I am a stay-at-home-mum, my excuse is that "this is my job" as at least I'm earning money. It actually gives me some self-esteem to feel like I'm doing something positive to contribute to the household income rather than "sponging" off my hubby. I can also "bull" that "I'm a free-lance writer" if anyo
ne asks!
This site is really great for those of us who are opinionated (me!) It's a really user-friendly site navigating it, reading, writing and submitting opinions is easy. It has certainly been well thought out. It's really important to write useful stuff, to include as much detail as possible and to make it as interesting as possible for other readers so that they can make an informed choice. We can all give others the benefit of our own experiences and hopefully help them to avoid our mistakes! This site is great for useful information on products and services etc. It's nice to be able to check out stuff BEFORE you buy it, as it's usually not til you get it home that any faults usually become apparent! Now, if I want to buy something I tend to check dooyoo for information first and it's amazing the ideas that people come up with on this site. You get paid for writing the opinions which is an incentive to write, but I write because I enjoy writing, not for the money. I see it as a game, it's fun to log in and see how many dooyoo miles you have got since you last looked, but all that fades into insignificance with all the fun you get both writing & reviewing and I like the sense of belonging to a community, it feels like one big happy family here at DOOYOO!

Anyway, top marks for this site, it's great fun and I will definitely be back for more - you couldn't keep me away if you tried!

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