What do people do in a cybercafe -- or 'coffee shop' where they mostly work at laptops? -- from an outsider looking in?

From an outsider looking in I walk past several every day, soaking up the atmosphere of arts communities, specialty shops, etc. I belong to a writer's group and am a reasonably good artist and speaker. But I am also an introvert. What do these people (mostly young adults) do on their laptops (all day, but mostly evenings?

) while sitting in a cyber cafe, coffee shop, music or arts hang-out? Are they running private businesses? Are they College students?

Grad students? Writers? And how open are they to socializing?

(e.g.Do they resent intrusion -- are they there to be 'among' people but still in their own world? -- or are they there to meet people and hang out? ).

There is a whole subculture of people who use the internet or just read or keep busy in some similar persuit, while basking in the coffee shop or arts and music settings. I'd rather not meet people in a bar, and church is sometimes too conformist-driven. I'd like a way in, to mingle with the creative and arts subculture around me.

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The man played games at the cybercafe for three days then collapsed and died possibly from exhaustio Thanks for your question. This is going to come off as more of a confessional than a proper answer, but I think it'll serve to illustrate that yes, some online addictions are in fact quite serious. I no longer play the game, but I was very actively playing World of Warcraft for a few years while away at college.

For purposes of illustration, there were weekends where I'd sit down after class on Friday afternoon, have a pizza delivered Friday evening, go to bed at 3:00 am Saturday, get up at 11:00 and continue playing, go to bed at 3:00 am Sunday, and play until midnight or so. It would not be an overstatement to say that for a while my life was entirely consumed by WoW playing. For purposes of further example, over the period September 2005-August 2007 (when I stopped playing, thank goodness), I logged over 250 days played.

That's not 250 partial days or I logged in for a minute or two on 250 days. Rather, that's 250 full 24-hour periods played. Looking back on it, I'm rather amazed, disappointed, and disgusted.

Anyway, yes, online addiction can be a very real thing. There are plenty of people who know and stick to their limits, but there are some so attracted to various games' draws that they just can't easily stop. And that really is sad.Be well.

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Check email, chat, school work, business proposals are some of the things they are doing. They often search for a spot using websites like this:This site contains a database of 4208 internet cafes in 141 countries. To search for a Cyber Cafe near you, either click on the map to search by continentor type a city into the search box.

cybercafe.com/ The fall morning is mercifully fog-free, which puts a spring in the step of Mordy Karsch as he rolls into work. In short order, he fires up the computer, turns on his cellphone and orders breakfast. Though he has toiled on these premises for two years, he doesn't know anyone here well except for Angel Pinto, who brings him his hot coffee.

That's because Karsch, 34, works out of The Grove, a bohemian eatery in this city's hip Marina district that caters to a growing army of office-less employees. "Working from a place like this is less stressful than being in an office, and I find I get a lot more done," says Karsch, general manager of Spanish Sales Force, a Spanish-language marketing consultancy. "If you can make this work for you, you'll love it."Call The Grove the office of the future, except the future is here.

An estimated 30 million Americans, or roughly one-fifth of the nation's workforce, are part of the so-called Kinko's generation, employees who spend significant hours each month working outside of a traditional office. http://www.usatoday.com/life/2006-10-04-third-space_x.htm Sources: cybercafe.com/ .

1 I don't know, Dawg, I am addicted to my laptop. I take it everywhere I go. Somebody owned us, figured out we have one thing in common.....we want free WiFi.So we go there.

We do everything there that you can do on a computer. Which is everything you can do in your head. Which is everything.

Thanks for a good thought thread.

I don't know, Dawg, I am addicted to my laptop. I take it everywhere I go. Somebody owned us, figured out we have one thing in common.....we want free WiFi.So we go there.

We do everything there that you can do on a computer. Which is everything you can do in your head. Which is everything.

Thanks for a good thought thread.

If being on your lap-top is a tool for your muse, your creativity, your socializing -- I'd tend to think that an 'outsider' would be an annoyance. Still, laptop/WiFi users hang out in groups, and seem to have a common experience even without exactly mingling. I guess the atmosphere of the 'place' (and others present) is why you go there, then?

Not really to socialize or meet folks. Right? You go there just because the place has atmosphere condusive to your 'muse' in your head and in the WiFi/cyberspace universe?

That would kind of make sense. But I still seek community and fellowship. Even as an introvert.

3 Why, they "cyber". What else would you do in a cyber cafe? .

Why, they "cyber". What else would you do in a cyber cafe?

Would like outsider (someone else in the real world)'s input for an idea for a work of fiction's backstory -see details.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.