You're at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or whatever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever 'gone to the bathroom' in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smartphone just so you can check your @ replies on Twitter?A new British study backs up that Internet usage is increasingly becoming an addiction. Out of 1000 people surveyed after being cut off from the Internet for 24 hours, 53% reported feeling 'upset' about being deprived of online access and 40% said that they felt lonely after not being able to connect to the Internet. Participants described the digital detox akin to quitting drinking or smoking.The Presurfer
