...from younger grades for prolonged use of electronics. Electronic devices may include laptops, computer games, cellular phones as well as any access to the internet. It is compulsory for pupils in Oakhill High School to bring a device to school, for educational purposes. The researcher is concerned about the health impact, as well as the impact on a student’s education due to possible uncontrollable electronic device use. Humans have struggled with addictions for thousands of years. With addiction being such an easily susceptible condition, the majority of our society live through an addiction, may it be drugs, alcohol or even gambling, during some...
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...the adolescent that lead to internet addiction. The internet has become a huge part of the adolescent lifestyle opening up the cyber world for them. The excessive over use of the internet is known as internet addiction and anyone can become an internet addict. The over use of the internet can hinder many things in a person’s life such as cutting oneself off from the outside world, performing badly at tasks, or having bad time management problems. Many adolescent addicts have been known to be susceptible to substance use, and be involved in many risky online activities such as the following; meeting someone in person that they have never seen before, or even going as fare as becoming involved in cybering, also known as cybersex. There are many factors that can either help feed an internet addiction or help to keep adolescence from having an internet addiction. Parental monitoring believes that by good parental monitoring parents can actually alter an adolescent’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings toward leisure time thus keeping them from having an internet addiction. The study was measured with a survey by asking adolescence questions like the following with a rating on a scale of 1-7: do your parents know how you spend your pocket money, how you spend your leisure time, where you were last night. The results showed that the adolescence were strictly monitored by their parents which shows to have a negative effect on an adolescent being an Internet Addict. Although the study...
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...Historical Analysis Paper: Internet Addiction- A Rising Issue The number of Internet users has intensely went up over the years due to the growing accessibility of the Internet. In 2009 the amount of time Americans spent online increased by over a hundred percent from 2004. China, Japan, the United States, Brazil and India are currently the countries containing the largest populations of Internet users world-wide. The countries most plagued with Internet Addiction Disorder include mainly the countries within the continent of Asia such as China and South Korea as well as Northern America, United States (Conrad). Internet addiction has become a serious problem that is progressively modifying the brain structure and function for persons addicted. Like other forms of addiction, the Internet addiction results from the excessive usage of the computer and other internet enabled technological devices which causes increased dependency. Psychological issues and Mental disorders generally tend to lead individuals towards various forms of addictions and exacerbates their illness; this can happen in the reverse chronological order as well. College students are more likely to be disposed towards Internet Addiction because of their developing minds at that stage and the increasing role the Internet plays in the academic world. Scientists are currently researching for more and more efficient treatments for this Internet Addiction Disorder or IAD, but hey must initially be able to correct...
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...connected to the internet either by phone, computers, or tablets. By being able to escape the real world and enter the “internet world” with a push of a button, more and more issues arise with your daily life, work, and relationships. Do you spend more time playing games, repeatedly checking texts, emails, websites or apps? Do you spend more time interacting on social media, rather than interacting with real people? If you answer “yes” to both of these questions, then you might have an online addiction. Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), causes neurological complications, psychological disturbances, and social problems. With spending more time on social networking, dating apps, and texting, you get to a point where you care more about online friends then your real-life friends and relationships. Gaming, shopping, bidding, stock trading, are considered online compulsions. With these examples at your beck and call, can put you in financial trouble. Other effects of online addictions are increase in loneliness and depression, increase in stress, and disrupt your sleep. There are many steps to lessen the impact of online addictions. Developing coping skills will help to reduce urges to use the internet. Getting support from friends or family, logging your time, or set a timer. Or by substituting internet usage with other activities, like taking a walk, reading a book, or calling a friend. Smartphone Addiction. (n.d.). http://www.helpguide.org/articles/addiction/smartphone-and-internet-addiction...
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...Social Network Addiction A Social Network is a social structure typically online made up of particular organizations or individuals which are connected through common interests, relationship beliefs, or friendship. The term social network was first termed by J. A. Barnes in 1954. He associated the term with the patterns and concepts use by the public and his fellow social scientists that tied them to one another. Now in 2010 people usually relate to a social network by thinking of Facebook and Myspace. These websites have grown so large and fast in the past decade that there have even been movies made about their success with A list actors competing for lead roles. It seems that the whole world has gotten caught up with this so-called Facebook and Internet addiction. I catch my sister spending up to 20 hours a week wasting her life away on Internet alone. CNN reports people spending entire nights just customizing their page, even if they have work the next day. Scientists like Dr. Block of Seattle’s research institute report of patients who use the Internet excessively more than 30 or 40 hours a week. New studies suggest Internet addicts are in the millions. There are lots of treatments available from 12 step programs found all over the internet ironically to methods like using a timer next to your computer every time you log on. The one I found to be most useful was a software program that will let you log onto a site life Facebook on specific days but only for...
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...Beatrice Iheuwa College Writing II Social Media – Rough Draft Fall 2009 Instagram is an online mobile photo sharing application through social networking, this enables users to share videos and pictures and connect them with other social networking platforms like Facebook and twitter. In October 2010 Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger as a free mobile application and then it rapidly gained attention and grew in popularity with over 100 million active users in April 2012 and over 300 million as of December 2014. Instagram was then acquired by Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for about $1 Billion dollars and Facebook got all rights to user’s photos and to sell user’s photos to a third party without notification or compensation. The person I chose to interview is my best friend Susan, I have known Susan for about 10 years now and one thing I know about her is that she loves attention and loves taking pictures. I believe Instagram was made for her. Susan first learned about Instagram sometime in 2011 being that Instagram started on October 6th 2010 so she wasn’t too late in signing up like the rest of us. She said the first time she signed up she wasn’t too savvy about the application she just loved the fact that she could take pictures and then filter them however she likes then upload them into the app for the whole world to see. Susan’s first post was a picture of her face which we now call a selfie, she said whenever she did her makeup and hair...
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...excessive gaming. With the growing number of gamers worldwide, adverse effects (isolation, hospitalizations, excessive use, etc.) are observed in a minority of gamers, which is a concern for society and for the scientific community. In the present study, we focused on screening gamers at potential risk of MMORPG addiction. Methods: In this exploratory study, we focused on characteristics, online habits and problematic overuse in adult MMORPG gamers. In addition to socio-demographical data and gamer behavioral patterns, 3 different instruments for screening addiction were used in French MMORPG gamers recruited online over 10 consecutive months: the substance dependence criteria for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, fourth revised edition (DSM-IV-TR) that has been adapted for MMORPG (DAS), the qualitative Goldberg Internet Addiction Disorder scale (GIAD) and the quantitative Orman Internet Stress Scale (ISS). For all scales, a score above a specific threshold defined positivity. Results: The 448 participating adult gamers were mainly young adult university graduates living alone in urban areas. Participants showed high rates of both Internet addiction (44.2% for GIAD, 32.6% for ISS) and DAS positivity (27.5%). Compared to the DAS negative group, DAS positive gamers reported significantly higher rates of tolerance phenomenon (increased amount of time in online gaming to obtain the desired effect)...
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...A New Disorder: Internet Addiction The Internet has become an essential factor in all aspects of people’s lives. Governments and companies around the world rely on the Internet in most of their work. Employees often use the Internet for their jobs. Most education systems make the Internet a basic standard of their teaching procedure. Students use the Internet to do their assignments or to search for information that could help them. Generally the Internet is a daily basis for most individuals. Therefore, a new phenomenon has emerged recent years. Those who overuse the Internet can be addicted, the same as alcoholics and drug addicts. Commonly, they probably spend 40-80 hours/weakly (Young; par. 7). This addiction can be to pornography, gambling, chatting and social network websites or any other interest that could keep a person online for a long time. Although some scientists believe that Internet addiction disorder is not real because people can be taught and trained how to use the Internet sensibly, psychologists, parents and teachers should consider that it is possible to have an Internet addiction disorder because the Internet leads to health problems, impacts addicts’ personal lives, and causes similar symptoms to other addictions. Some of the main issues about the Internet are its neurological, psychological and physical effects. Brains cells are the most essential cells in the whole body because they control most of a person’s activities. According to Alice G. Walton...
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...average World ofWarcraftiunkie undoubtedly represents a much less destructive social force than the average meth head. But it’s not extreme anecdotes that make the specter of Internet addiction so threatening; it’s the fact that Internet overuse has the potential to scale in a way that few other addictions do. Even if Steve designed a really cool - looking syringe and started distributing free heroin on street corners, not everyone would try it. But who among us doesn't already check his email more often than necessary?As the Internet weaves itself more and more tightly into our lives, only the Amish are completely safe. As early as 1996, Kimberly Young was promoting the idea that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) should add Internet addiction disorder to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM). In February, the APA announced that its coming edition of the DSM, the first major revision since 1994, will for the first time classify a behavior - related condition — pathological gambling-as an “addiction” rather than an “impulse control disorder.” Internet addiction disorder is not being included in this new category of “behavioral addictions,” but the APA said it will consider it as a “potential addition . . . as research data accumulate.” If the APA does add excessive Internet use to the DSM, the consequences will be wide - ranging. Health insurance companies will start offering at least partial coverage for treatment programs such as reSTART....
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...Internet and Society Shaneil Drummond Indian River State College PSY 2012 Professor Greene March 21, 2010 1,020 Words Abstract This essay will explain the usage of the internet and how society deals with it. The world known idea of suicide and cyber bullying have taken over the internet. The articles used to complete this essay are very informative about the person you may be on the internet versus the person you really are. Internet addiction is a well know idea but not a fully developed research. This essay also includes how the internet can create social vampires in society. Not knowing how to interact in real life but a internet sensation otherwise. The internet has become a worldwide phenomenon where everyone has access to almost everything on the web. The books and articles available online about the internet and the different views and ways to use it has help many people realize that the internet is not all that it is cracked up to be. An article illustrates the addiction people have had with the internet over the past decade and how it has impact adolescents and young adults. “Internet users can be considered addicted if he or she scores high on six criteria” (Brown, & Blinka, .2012, p382). The six criteria they mention were...
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...Discussion on the Problem of Online Game Addiction After 30 years of development, the internet has become one of the most influential technical achievements of 20th century, which has had an crucial impact on all walks of life. Nowadays, internet technology and its application has become an important indicator of measuring comprehensive national power. As we know, Internet offers many conveniences. As a result ,it has made many people depend on it. What is worse, a large number of people have become addicted，especially to online game addiction.By2007,the population of online gamers worldwide was about 217 million, approximately 28 percent of the total online population(comScore,2007).In addition, online game addiction is prevalent in many countries, including China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, U.S., and Canada. In South Korea,2.4 percent of the population, ages nine to thirty-nine, were believed to be addicted to online games, and over 10 percent could be classified as obsessive gamers(Faiola,2006). In this essay, firstly I will talk about how the internet applies to daily life and alters modern life. Then list the problems which occurred with the development of internet. After that ,I will analysis the reasons why they are addicted to online games. Finally, I put forward the impact and suggestions for solving the problem. The internet influences every part of our daily life, it includes the patterns of doing business activities, and the uses for recreation such as sending...
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...Effects of Internet addiction on Education Internet is an interconnection of hundred and thousands to provide global information thus a framework that provides many services and as a medium of creativity and innovation (Khan & Cerf, 1999) by this fact like many other substance it has an effect of addiction and in this essay it will at length and extensively the effects of Internet addiction on Education. Young and Nabuco de A brue (2010) states that cybersex, video gaming, gambling addiction as major addictive Internet services this among other like social networking and Internet telephony are common to young people who are aged between 6-18 and are school going. Once a learner is addicted to Internet like any other substance 70% of their mind is always away from the learning environment making them loose concentration and in advance cases miss educational lessons. Due to the variety of services on the Internet we have those that support the education system by providing research material and information to a learner but unfortunately this are not addictive since one has the information needed they tend to be certified unlike video gaming, social network where there is always a second person who keeps you there. Internet Gambling can make a learner waste a lot of financial resource and learning time on the Internet making at one point the learner depressed and in strain to get finances Young and Nabuco de A brue (2010). Social network have made many young people to...
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...Internet has been the boom for people in the last decade. Small category of people will take the fact with disagreement that everyone enjoys to do most of their life work in the most easiest and flexible way possible. Ease and Flexibility is what Internet has enormously provided to the world regardless of profession or comfort based activity. Nowadays internet is widely used by the business world for conducting their daily household and by individuals people to interact, learn and enjoy. Now almost everything can be done online. There is absolutely no doubt that Internet does give a lot of convenience to the humanity. This essay will work out in great detail the darker side of internet and its implications on the individuals and the community in general. Different generations vary from various ages are ready to take the adventure into the online world of computers networks and the internet, when the government begins rapidly introducing the use of internet worldwide, Many users employ the perils of internet and use it positively only but others are victims to the dark side of internet. Generally people who are lured into the dark work internet are usually classify as Internet addicts. Addiction could be defined as the condition of being habitually or obsessively busy with or involved in something. Mostly alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking, gambling and watching television etc. are all addictions cases. Previous research shows that internet can also be addictive [Griffiths...
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...Running head: PHOBIAS AND ADDICTIONS Phobias and Addictions PSY/300 Abstract This essay examines phobias and addictions, how phobias can be developed through operant conditioning and how addictions can be developed through operant conditioning. This essay also examines the distinctions between classical and operant condition and examines “extinction” as it relates to psychological theory and how extinction is achieved in classical and operant conditioning. Phobias and Addictions Numerous psychologists believe that behaviors are learned through conditioning. These conditionings are known as operant, which is based on individual’s response to outside stimuli, and classical conditioning, which is based on the theory that people’s reactions to situations are learned behaviors. Phobias and Addictions can develop when an individual’s ability to function within societal normality’s or adapt to societal complexities are diminished. Addiction is a condition in which the body must have a drug to avoid physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms. Phobias and classical conditioning Phobias are persistent and irrational fears of specific objects, activities, or situations that are excessive and unreasonable, given the reality of the threat. Even though phobias are based on irrational fears, they often cause serious problems in a person’s life. Phobias can result in a person being unable to perform their job, participate in any...
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...Internet Addiction In today's world, most Americans use the internet daily for daily needs. It has become very common to go online because it makes research and socializing easier. The internet is a great place for social networking and meeting or communicating with people across the world. Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, claims that using the internet can make people less intelligent. After spending a number of days researching on the topic of internet use, I have came to agree with Carr. I not only agree with him, that using the internet does make internet users less intelligent, I also believe that using the internet too often can make a person addicted to the internet. Once a person is addicted to the internet, they not only become less intelligent, like Carr believes, but they also develop mental and psychological problems. People should be more aware of internet addiction. The signs and symptoms should not be avoided when someone sees themself in the addiction situation. Once they become addicted, it is like a real drug, it will pull them in slowly and be hard to get away from. DSM IV and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) define addiction in terms of substance dependence or pathological gambling. To define internet addiction, it would be someone that meets at least three of the following criteria: tolerance, salience, withdrawal symptoms, difficulty controlling use, continued use despite negative consequences...
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