Physicians use it to learn more about unfamiliar diseases and the latest medical developments. Ordinary folks use it for shopping and communicating with family and friends. People all over the globe use it to connect with individuals of other countries and cultures. You never know exactly where the journey will take you. But for some people, the computer world rivals their real world.
Some people choose to commune with a computer, rather than their spouses and children.
While they expand their horizons electronically, they insulate themselves from intimate settings and relationships. Internet abuse has been cited as a contributing factor in the disintegration of marriages and families and the collapse of promising careers. Such use continues despite knowledge of a persistent or recurrent physical, social or psychological problem caused or exacerbated by net use, such as sleep deprivation, marital difficulties, lateness for early morning appointments, neglect of occupational duties and feelings of abandonment in significant others. Internet addiction has gained credibility among mental health professionals as a clinically significant disorder, which negatively impacts social, occupational, family and financial functioning. Anyone with access to a modem and the Internet may become addicted.