Internet addiction

I really appreciate and accept your arguments. So you concluded that "There is no such thing as internet addiction" , I don't agree with you, because internet addiction is a really threat and it exists. Ms Parker-Pope writes about various reports highlighting how technology is changing people. In one, she quotes cyber-psychologist Dr. Elias Aboujaode who says: "More and more, life is resembling the chat room." He said we are living in "virtual lifestyles" which is negatively affecting our real-life relationships. Nicki Dowling, a clinical psychologist from Melbourne University in Australia, concluded in a recent study that ten per cent of young people had what she called "Internet dependence".(10th June, 2010) To start with, yeah I agree online games in some point of view are useful, but don't you think that adolescents more inclined to spend their time in front of computers and we can call it virtual life, don't we? In addition there were surveyed several youngsters who suffered from virtual gaming(internet) addiction. Thus 17 years-old young boy said that he felt like online games were "pulling him" away from the real world. Others said they had contemplated suicide or played for up to 20 hours per day. The obsessions came with real consequence for these young men. Some had damaged relationships with family members; one found himself unemployed and unable to dig out of a rut. So from this points of view we can clearly seen that firstly it affects negatively to peoples' health, they hurt themselves mentally because of the vioence in games, besides, it is harmfull for their eye to sit too many hours in front of the computer. Secondly they destroy their real-life, because of the internet they are willing to stay at home online, instead of going outside to communicate with friends (virtual communication is more different than the real communication, sometimes for virtual people run a really life communication is very difficult).Although CNN asked on of the scientist O'Brien about his opinion of the internet addiction, in general and he said "We think (Internet addiction) is something. I even went to Beijing to visit a hospital that is dedicated to what the Chinese call Internet addiction, and it was full of young men who had been brought in by their parents because they had been spending hours a day and neglecting their studies and their health, even, playing these various games. Typically it's "World of Warcraft" that they're playing. But they don't really have what we consider to be evidence (that this is a disorder)." Thus from his words we can see that it ruins youngsers regard to study, so can't we call that a type of addiction? Besides, let me give one dire example of internet or online game addiction "in China was a terrible case that was in the newspapers last year in South Korea, where this couple who had a real baby were so involved with the virtual baby and doing things with the virtual baby that they neglected their real live baby and the baby died. To me that's the most dire, horrible thing that I've ever heard of. These people were clearly obsessed with it but that doesn't tell me that they had a disorder that we could define scientifically." added O'Brien. To be honest, the study of Internet addiction is still relatively new, but it really exist. The conception of this believes to be very similar to that of other common types of addictions. For the first time sitting online seems to be all right, but after several times it becomes a habbit, so little by little a person's unhealthy relationship become substituted substituted for their healthy ones. In conclusion, we have to be aware that internet addiction does exist, so we should restrict ourselves sitting online, playing games and so on. If we don't barrier ourselves from virtual-life our life will be neither lifely nor meaningful. So, by the way I sincerely respect your point of vision and thank you very much for accepting I mean for everything ^_^ Sources: http://edition.cnn.com... http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com... http://news.legalexaminer.com...