About the fellowship
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Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous, or ITAA, is a free, anonymous fellowship for people whose internet and technology use has become compulsive. That can mean endless scrolling, gaming, streaming, online video, news, shopping, or simply being unable to put the phone down. It adapts the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to digital compulsion.
There are no fees and no sign-up. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop compulsive internet and technology use.
ITAA is for anyone who feels their screen time has stopped being a choice. People in meetings describe losing whole evenings or nights to scrolling or gaming, reaching for the phone before anything else in the morning, hiding how much they use, and feeling restless or low whenever they try to cut back. It does not matter which app or device it is, and you do not have to call yourself an addict to come. ITAA publishes its own list of questions on its website if you want to reflect on your own use, and no one in a meeting will decide for you.
Meetings run on video call or phone and usually last about an hour. Someone reads a short opening, members share their own experience, and nobody is made to speak. Because the fellowship is worldwide, there are meetings at almost every hour of the day UK time, including early mornings and late nights, and some run in other languages. A first name is all anyone uses.
ITAA started in 2017 and has grown quickly as more people found their tech use running away from them. Most meetings are online, which suits a fellowship whose members are working out a healthier relationship with the very devices they join from. Members often talk about defining their own bottom lines, the specific uses they abstain from, rather than giving up technology altogether.