Internet Addiction: story

Internet Addiction: Overview

The term internet addiction refers to the over usage of the internet including its different applications such as social websites. The usage of the term "addiction" has been an argumentative issue between the scientists because it is applied on the overuse of substances only such as drugs, tobacco, food ,etc. Those scientists like to call it process addictions when the person is addicted to an activity or behavior. However, the American Psychological Association has marked it as a disorder .

Few years ago, the number of internet users was not as big as today where the technology is cheap and available. Also , nowadays, internet is more related to our social life and its applications are effecting almost every part of our daily life. In addition, it changed the way that we live and communicate. As a result, the possibility of being an internet addicted is high and it is getting higher with the development of the this technology. Also more, Affonso(1999) has considered loneliness and lack of social support as variables social isolation which lead to internet addiction. These two factors are considered as the strongest and most effective factors according to Ramachandran(2000).

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