This Friday Fact Box is a little weird but certainly interesting. The title pretty much says it all.

People experience strange emotions about the Internet (Image Paul Downey under CC)

From eMarketer  - Japanese find the Internet a Scary Place (April 2009) 

• According to Marsh Research, 84.4% of adult Internet users in Japan have felt at least once that the Internet is “scary.”
• The degree to which they were frightened varied, with 11.7% saying the Internet was really scary, and 72.7% saying it was only somewhat scary.
• Familiarity is not bringing any comfort, either. More than 60% of respondents said the Internet was as scary as it was last year—and 24% said that it was even scarier. 

From The New York Times - Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex? (December 2008)

• 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would opt to forgo sex for two weeks rather than give up access to their precious Internet for the same period.
• The survey revealed that 65 percent of adults feel they cannot live without Internet access, and even more — 71 percent — responded that it is important or very important to have Internet-enabled devices.

From The Escapist - Internet Addiction: Coming to China in 2009 (November 2008)

• Tao Ran, who set up China's first internet addiction clinic at the Military General Hospital in Beijing, said his studies of more than 3000 people over four years led him to determine that the condition is legitimate, similar to compulsive gambling or alcoholism.
• Tao said internet addicts spend 6.13 hours per day online, a figure that matches up nicely with that of experts in the U.S., who say that 6.14 hours represents addiction; in the U.S., however, internet addiction is not recognized as an actual illness.

From Yahoo Kids - Is the Internet as Dangerous as Drunk Driving? (October 2008)

• A survey of 1,000 moms of teenagers commissioned by McAfee and conducted by Harris Interactive reached the surprising conclusion that “about two-thirds of mothers of teens in the United States are just as, or more, concerned about their teenagers’ online safety, such as from threatening emails or solicitation by online sexual predators, as they are about drunk driving (62 per cent) and experimenting with drugs (65 per cent).” 

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