By Jo Best, 4 August 2004 12:45
NEWS The Finnish army is in a right old state if one official is to be believed. A bunch of young men are being excused from military service due to a debilitating modern illness - internet addiction.
According to reports, Commander Captain Jyrki Kivela of Finland's military conscription unit revealed that some of the young men drafted can't cope with being apart from their beloved PCs and have been booted off their full term of military service.
The commander said that the internet addicts come of age without having any friends or hobbies - apart from their computer and online gaming, of course - and can't cope with the shock of being thrown in the rough and tumble social whirl that is army life.
When they go to the army doctor to share their woes, a proportion of them are diagnosed with the terrible affliction of internet addiction.
Finland lost nine per cent of its conscripts last year to illness but it's not known how many of them suffered from the internet addiction.
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