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INTERNET ADDICTION

Day by day , more and more people are becoming internet addict.The internet is

global,useful and enjoyable.Also people who ,are addicted,think these benets are ge>ng harmful and it has three main results on people . Interrup@on of rela@onships , psychological problems and drug use are results of internet addic@on .

Psychological problems are one of the important result of internet addic@on.There are two things about it.Firstly,depression or other psychological problems exist when people who are addicted,cant access the internet.Genevra PiHman(2001)men@ons that 4 percent of teens have problema@c internet usein a high school students from Connec@cut.ARer that,those students who reported and powerful urge to be on the internet and tension when they werent online were to be depressed and aggressive.(p.1) .Secondly , some people who are addicted , have signicant psychological problems that feeling guilty,helplessness,lazy and also desperate.They spend a lot of @me in front of computer and they shut down their brain with social life.So when they try to x it,they cant and because of this they feel those things.For example,according to survey,thirty percent of addicted people have a psychological problems like feeling guilty,helplessness or something like that.In brief psychological problems are considerable results of internet addic@on.

One of the other result of internet addic@on is interrup@on of rela@onships.First of all,it

includes family and school rela@onships.According to PiHman(2011),Dr.Timothy Liu asked more than 150 ques@on and there was seven ques@on about internet use . Teens answered,when they were suering on internet,they missed social ac@vi@es and school and also their parents expressed interest about their online @me(p.1).On the other hand,majority of people ,who are addicted, do not have good rela@onships between they and their society.They can not make good connec@ng

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to their friends or parents.For example,the most successful player of World Of WarcraR Ian Louisi had a interview with magazines and he said he didnt have any friends un@l being champion and always have a trouble with his family.To sum up,internet has a important role on rela@onships and addicted people dont have good rela@onships because of internet.

Drug use is the last result of internet addic@on.Minority of addicted people have harmful habits.Drug and alcohol are the most important parts of those habits.Firstly,internet addic@on is described as a behavior model of compulsive drug use characterized by overwhelming involvement with the use of a drug.The eects that the addic@on can have on every appearance of the persons life are just devasta@ng as those of alcoholism.There have been many aHempts by doctors and psychologists to explain addic@on disorders.Also it has drug and alcohol.(Ferris, 1999,p.248).

To conclude,drug use interrup@on of rela@onships and psychological problems are three main results of internet addic@on.Internet has a benets for people and also it is charming.People are becoming addicted,when they spend @me on internet regularly.Apart from these internet can aect nega@vely of peoples life.Benets of internet can be irrelevant when users haveirresis@ble urge.All around the world,internet has same eects on people.

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