Internet Anonymous

This scene takes place in an office, there are two men, one is sitting at a desk and he has all sorts of electronic tools, a computer, a keyboard, a mouse, a tower and loudspeakers. He looks self-satisfied. Another man is standing up and looks puzzled. They have the same green shirt so we can think that they are colleagues. Below the cartoon there is a sentence said by the men who is sitting. It says: " I'm going to internets Anonymous... We meet in a yahoo chatroom."                        

The aim of the cartoonist is to criticize the attitude of people who are addicted. It's to make people aware of addiction, and to laugh at the associations for addicted people because "intenets anonymous" looks like "alcoholics anonymous" which is an international association with the purpose of helping people to learn to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety, but for the artist it isn't useful. This drawing is a paradox because the man wants to kick his habit which is internet addiction with a computer, it's a big contradiction and it isn't possible. 

This cartoon deals with a very recent issue because there are a lot of alcoholics anonymous and this association is very famous and used. And nowdays more and more people are getting addictied to things, for example videogames, cigarettes, alcohol, phone, etc... So I think that the autor wants to denounce that. I'm not concerned by this cartoon because I'm not an addictive person, I don't want be answerable to anything, for me it's some kind of deprivation of liberty. But, this cartoon is interesting because it's very true. And all internet addicts must see it. For me internet addiction is a real problem in today's society because having a lot of new technologies makes people not interact between each other but they have virtual relations and it's a real shame! But, even so, I think that a computer is a very good tool of work or of entertainment, but in small doses.