Internet is a great source of help for everyone, specially for children. People use internet for work, education, entertainment, and communication. One can increase his or her productivity to a wide extent by using the internet, but its overuse can sometime lead to complications. Addiction of the internet can create disturbances in your daily routine that can lead to problems in work and relationships. When you start liking your online activities more than your real-life activities that leave a negative impact on your life, is termed as addiction of internet. Some of us can't stop ourselves from playing games on our computer, chatting with our friends, compulsive surfing on the Internet, etc. that all comes under internet addiction.
Types of Internet Addiction: The most common types of internet addictions are:
Cyber-friendship: Cyber-friendship is related to excessive online activities such as social networking, chat rooms and other friendship clubs that help someone to make virtual friends. This addiction is quite dangerous as it takes you away from your real-life relationships.
Internet Compulsions: Net compulsions refer to addiction towards online gambling, gaming, use of online auction sites that could even lead to the situation of financial crisis.
Computer addiction: Playing games offline excessively and giving less time to other useful activities.
Cyber-sex addiction: It includes Internet Pornography, adult chat rooms, etc. that can hamper your intimate real-life relationships.
Internet addiction is also known by other names such as computer addiction and online addiction.
Symptoms of Internet Addiction:
It's hard to define any specific symptoms that indicate internet addiction, but some common ones are:
- Losing track of time after getting connected: Internet addiction can be identified if you often remain online without any skips, you spend more time on the internet than that you decide once you plug in, you feel irritated if you can't access the internet.
- Devoting less and less time to household work: Due to long online schedules, you miss some household work such as washing clothes and cooking food. You often come late from office due to delay in finishing your daily tasks or to access web when everyone has gone.
- Cut-off from family and friends: You often feel isolated and communicate less with family members and friends. You often feel that your online friends are better than your offline friends. Your social life is suffering as you're spending more time on the internet.=
- Denying spending too much time on the internet: You often feel guilty while spending most of your time on the net and avoiding your social responsibilities. You often deny that you use internet excessively, and you hide the fact from your family members and colleagues.
- Heightened sense of euphoria while accessing internet: You often feel relaxed while you're on internet and it has become a great platform for sharing your emotions, sadness and excitement.
If used wisely, the internet can become a major source for enhancing your productivity, but its excessive use may lead to addiction that is as harmful as other addictions. Make a better use of internet to improve your life, but don't make it your life.
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