Is there any way of injecting this stuff? (dooyoo Addiction)

Member Name: The Duke

Product:	dooyoo Addiction
Date:	19/03/01 (78 review reads)
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Advantages: can be very rewarding (in more ways than one)

Disadvantages: Takes up too much time

I’ve just left a lecture at university, and rather than read over the notes which I have just taken and tidy them up, or perhaps type them up in a word processor, I’m rushing back to the computer science departments’ computer labs. Why is this? Is it because I am awaiting important exam results? Is it because I have an interview regarding a placement? Possibly because I have a lot of work to do for an assignment?

No, it’s because about an hour ago, I typed and posted my newest opinion for Dooyoo, and now I’m rushing back to see how other members have received it. Who has read it? Who has rated it? What witty, or congratulatory comments are waiting at the bottom of the page? Has someone agreed with my point of view, or disagreed? This is why I’m rushing from the main building, up the street to the computer science building.

I’m so excited that I have to re-type my username and password a few times before I get it right, and am allowed access to the network. Upon loading Explorer, and browsing to Dooyoo from my favourites list, I quickly type in my name and password (no errors there though – my fingers are on auto pilot) and because of the speed of our Internet backbone at university, the Dooyoo front-page loads almost immediately.

I click on The Duke’s account at the top of the page and…

There it is. It’s been read by four members, and is currently rated “Very Useful” but there are no comments. I’m pleased. No, I’m more than pleased, I’m very pleased! In fact, I’m so pleased, I hunt out one of my early opinions, and set out to update it so that it’s more informative, better written, has less typos and generally will be of use to people who want to read what I post.

This is Dooyoo addiction… but I haven’t finished yet.

I have a few ideas which I jot down on some paper about updating this earlier o
pinion. I hunt down a few facts on the internet to confirm something I was unsure about which I email to my home email address for use later, I make a few more observations, then I got to my last lecture of the day.

It’s an hour’s journey home from university to my house at this time of night which is rush hour time. On the way down the road, my minidisk player’s batteries run out after only a few hours play. Mental note to self – include this point in your minidisc opinion when you get around to updating it. Rather than strolling down the road, taking my time, I find myself striding down the road at a faster pace than I would usually walk. So much so, that I make the earlier bus, and find myself home fifteen minutes earlier than usual.

I wolf down my tea, and hurry upstairs to my room where I boot up my computer, and run Word. My free internet time doesn’t begin until 6pm, so that gives me ten minutes to type up the new facts that I had confirmed earlier – I can still remember the ones I emailed to myself, so I don’t need to check my mail.

Thirty minutes later, I realise that I’ve basically rewritten the entire opinion to a fairly good level, but to make sure, I log onto the Internet, browse to Dooyoo, and scan my personal profile. I make a note that only one other person has read my most recent opinion, but it’s still rated as Very Useful, and they’ve left a comment too! I read the comment, which is basically the member telling me I had made some good points (always nice to hear!) then I browse to the opinion I am updating.

I have a quick read through and see that what I have just typed in Word is far better than what I had written months ago, so I select the “Change my opinion” option. When the screen comes up, I delete the old opinion, and then cut and paste the new version straight out of Word to Dooyoo where I hit the Doo it button, and settle back with
a cup of coffee.

Then it strikes me that I haven’t checked my mail for that day. I quickly look at my inbox, but no one in my circle of friends has written any opinions today so I log off. It’s coming close to 7pm at this point.

Later, at around 10pm, I’m sitting watching the telly, after doing some work for uni when I get this niggling thought that I should be doing something… but what? Then it hits me – my updated opinion!

I rush back upstairs and log onto the Internet, browse to Dooyoo again, log on, and look at my personal profile. Woohoo! Before I updated the opinion, it had three reads and one vote of “useful”, but now it has ten reads, and seven votes of “very useful”. Excellent!

This is not the end though. This was the point I was at near the start of this year. I’ve been a member since August of last year, but have only really gotten into Dooyoo since then due to a number of factors, one of which was the slow speed of Dooyoo which rendered it practically unusable on my 56k modem at home. This has now been fixed, and I can Dooyoo a lot easier than I used to.

Then I found out about something else. “The Opinionated Community” (TOC, or OpCom) is a bulletin board on the Internet, which deals with things Dooyoo (http://dooyoo.community.everyone/). I had hoped that by frequenting this place, I would cure myself of this thing that was slowly taking over my entire online existence.

Alas, it had the opposite effect – TOC made it worse. Their discussions on pointing out new members, good opinions, how to improve Dooyoo somehow just made my addiction worse. Was there anything that would cure me? Whilst browsing TOC, I noticed something else – a chatroom! I’d always been a fan of Internet chatting – perhaps if I spent some time chatting, I wouldn’t spend so much time considering what I would write opinions on!


So, I logged on to the chatroom. Instantly, some of the names were familiar from opinions I had read on Dooyoo, but hang on… something was wrong…

They were… *gasp* talking rubbish! That member who I had just read a very good, crowned opinion on a fairly serious matter was talking absolute nonsense! That was the end of it. I knew I couldn’t escape the grasp of this evil addiction, the only thing I could do was throw myself headlong into this.

“Hi. I’m The Duke, and I’m a Dooyoo addict”

**Update**
Having spent some time in the chat room, I'm afraid I now talk as muich rubbish as the rest of them.

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