http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Addictions/16291
Now that the internet is accessible in most places around the world, which is great it also comes with internet addiction. In my opinion Internet addiction is a new type of drug. It’s funny to think that the internet can be consider a drug because we are not shooting or smoking it but rather just sitting down and using it. It is sad to see that a creation so powerful that makes our life so much easier can harm us just by using it too much. Different types of disorders such as “attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)” or depression and social phobia is also predicted that the personal is predicted of internet addiction.
Medpagetoday an online magazine website shows the downside to internet addiction in the youth population. Throughout the article the researchers from National Science Council of Taiwan studied different symptoms of the internet addiction and the percentage of disorders that have come from it. In order to get the data the researchers took 2,293 students from 10 local Taiwanese schools in September 2005. Questionnaires we filled out every six, 12 and 24 months. The results came back as 10.8% of the seventh graders could be classified as having internet addiction.
It was almost impossible to save all of the people that are having problems with internet addiction but trying will help many. Do you think that in areas where internet addiction has a higher percentage should have a monitor on usage time or address people in a certain manner?
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I strongly disagree with monitoring the internet use just because of the internet addiction. Everyone is free to use internet, regardless of how much time they spend. It is not "illegal" to use internet, so why d people have to be monitored?
ReplyDeleteIn modern age right now, internet addictions are everywhere. No matter how young or old people are, drugs symbolizes internet addiction. Sometimes I can't get out of my favorite TV programs in a website or so. However, it seems that this internet addiction is connected to my brother because he isn't with family, but with his friends more. Internet addiction can cause people to be more 'big' on themselves. And how would you monitor someone who is at home doing something that he or she shouldn't do? You can't really see what users are doing during their internet addiction.
ReplyDeleteInternet addiction is everywhere specially on the teenagers since they were the ones that grew with internet present through all their years. Internet should be only monitored in school or work, since they are places where people should be productive on an their tasks.
ReplyDeleteInternet addiction has become an issue because people loose their interactive skills. They become isolated and excluded from the society which can develop bigger problems.
I don't think that they should have a monitor on usage time where internet addiction has a higher percentage because this will not stop people from using the internet or decreasing the amount of time they spent in a computer, i think that monitoring people will result in more problems because it will then be consider on invading people's privacy trying to control how people use the internet. Although internet addiction is a big issue in todays society there are different ways in which it can be control, for example with this method of informing people of the risks to which internet addiction could lead to.
ReplyDeleteyou will all think that im crazy, but i think that to stop the internet addiction in our future society, we have to stop making internet so easy and accessible to people, and reduce the advantages that internet services provide. because as internet now is improving and making life easier, people will stop enjoying the real beautties of life, and will be sticked into a computer all day. i am affraid that this will be the end of our civilization
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