Investigative Report of Internet Addiction Essay -- Internet Addiction

Investigative Report of lucre AddictionTABLE OF CONTENTLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ...............................................ivABSTRACT.............................................................vINTRODUCTION ........................................................1Purpose .............................................................1Growth Of The Internet ..............................................1THE dependency .......................................................2What causes it ......................................................2Symptoms ............................................................3How To Overcome The Addiction........................................4The elements of any addiction........................................4CONCLUSION ..........................................................8One Last Interesting Question .......................................9REFERENCES ..........................................................10LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSFigure s1. The military issue of networks connected to the Internet vs. Time.2. The percentage of the Internet domains3. Will the equating large number = Internet Users be true in 2001?ABSTRACTThe problem of Internet addiction is not very noticeable now and thats why notmany people are taking it seriously, but what these people are failing to see isthe connection between the very rapid growth of the Internet and the addictionproblem. It is re all in ally simple logic the bigger the Internet get the more userswill be which will lead to a bigger number of addicts that can have their livesas well as others corrupted by this behavior. The main objective of this storyis to make sure that all reader accredit and understand what Internet addiction isand how it can be solved or avoided. I can not offer a professional psychiatric firmness of purpose but I believe if a person knows more about the addiction, the betterchance they have to help themselves as well as others thats why I haveincluded a short summary of the elements of addiction.I hope that by the time you read my paper you will have a better understandingabout this issue to keep yourself as well as others of taking Internet addictionlightly.INTRODUCTIONPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to make you, the reader, alert and more aware ofthe newest type of addiction, Interne... ...not be life threatening like about drug addiction, but it can very slanderousto the person professional and personal life. The key to staying away from thisaddiction is to understand its elements and have a strong will power to controlones self from all the temptations that the Internet might provide.One Last Interesting QuestionWe all know that more and more people are gaining access to the Internet someway or another, but not every body had the chance of looking at figure 3 Figure 3. Will the equation people = Internet Users be true in 2001? (Sourceftp//nic.merit.edu/statistics/nsfnet)REFERENCESElias, M. (7/7/1996) Net overuse called true addiction, USA Today, pp 1-A.McAllester, M. (5/5/1996), Study says some may be addicted to the Net BulldogEdition.,Los Angeles Times, , pp A-18.Network Wizards, onlineAvailable URL http//www.nw.com/zone/Rodgers, J. (1994), Treatments that works, Vol. 27, Psychology Today, pp 34.Young, Kimberly, Centre of on-line addiction (COLA), onlineAvailable URL http//www.pitt.edu/ksy/ merit Network Inc., onlineAvailable URL ftp//nic.merit.edu/statistics/nsfnet/