Summary
When you add it all up-incessant Web surfing; over-allegiance to chat rooms, forums, and discussion groups; fixation on online pornography, gambling, and games; music, movie, and other media downloading; and a wide variety of other fixations-what emerges is the portrait of a society and indeed a world sitting on its derriere, breezing through one screen after another. IAD, as acknowledged by the American Psychiatric Association, is characterized by individuals who devote gargantuan amounts of time to online activities to the detriment of their careers, studies, families or loved ones, and social and community participation.
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Internet Addiction Is Not Pretty
A variety of surveys are beginning to indicate that Internet addiction is intensifying. Since 1994, the year that popular Internet browsers became widely available to the public, psychologists have been concerned about the power and appeal that the Internet...
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