"We have people calling on a weekly if not daily basis. If somebody engages in the use of an application compulsively, we get calls about it. There isn't one application that's good or bad, but if people are unable or unwilling to stop using it, that's what we look at as a red flag for an intervention."

--Libby Smith, corporate clinician for the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery, which helps treat internet addicts, quoted in a WIRED story on the likely failures of trying to avoid sever information overload at this week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.