ESOL 052: Editing Practice

Internet addiction has become a huge problem in today’s society. In Greg Beato’s article, he discusses the growing phenomena of internet addiction disorder. The writer explains that more and more people are becoming addicted to the internet. For example, he tells of a teenager in Ohio, who shot and killed his mom and injured his dad because they took away his Xbox. He tells how it is stated that five to ten percent of the 52 million internet users were addicted. The author is telling us that the internet has become very addictive in our everyday society.

Internet addiction is now considered to be a “grave national health crisis”(Dokoupil 2012, 27). Several cases have emerged where people went completely insane due to the abuse of technology. This was to the extreme where two parents were so addicted to taking care of their virtual baby, they forgot about their real child. The infant was neglected to death. Another case is of a son who turns on his own mother when she suggests “he log[s] off”(27). As a response, the young man beats his mother until she eventually dies. These aren’t the only examples of insanity and for this reason, for the first time in history, “Internet Addiction Disorder will be included...in an

While reading chapter two, the section of Relational Deterioration in the text spoke to me. Recently, I dealt with a situation in my life that was similar to this topic. The part that reached out to me the most was when the text stated, “…. researchers found a correlation between social network use, marital dissatisfaction, and divorce” (48). However, I know my spouse is not in any engagement with another women and having an affair, just much of his time is spent on the phone at home.

For example, in Sherry Turkle’s article “The Tethered Self,” she states, “Teenagers grew up in a culture of distraction" (29). Teenagers are losing interest in their social lives and their education. Instead of spending hours studying for that big final or doing something productive all that is being done is them being online. phones, tablets, and computers are an easy distraction. Additionally, she then says, “I have a lot of people on my contact list, if one doesn’t ‘get it.’ I call another” (Turkle 241). Instead of people depending on their own thoughts they rely on answers from their friends or family. They are not thinking for themselves and the first thing society does when a situation comes up is search through their contacts to see who to get a hold of for a solution. If someone does not respond in an instant that is not the end. People will keep contacting everyone they could possibly think of until someone pics up or texts back. Turkle also addresses that, “Technology is the architect of our intimacies” (28). There are many different websites and apps for creating a relationship. Although, it is difficult to keep up with them because people do not know whether the person they are talking to is actually who they say they are. Having an intimate relationship is difficult to keep with the distraction of the web. Nothing people post is private, anybody can get a hold of

Users who spend too much time in cyberspace are typically fleeing problems with relationships or trying to address deep feelings of insecurity or loneliness…and as with other addictions, what at first seems like a pleasurable retreat from pain, gradually becomes a tyrant, interfering with work, family life and normal, healthy contact with other people (Macklin).

In Donald Murray article’s “Drafting, Revising and Editing”, he talks about the faith, planning techniques, writer’s block, getting started and task to keep writing for a any type of writing assignment. Murray also give tips to the writers of how to improve their paper every single time they revised it. Even though Murray talks about the techniques there still going to be writers not using all the tasks he provides, yet writers are going to feel like quitting on the writing assignment; therefore Murray gives writers tips of what to do when they feel like quitting. Murray’s advice will be useful for my essays papers because I can use the new tips for all my essays.

This paper will focus on Internet addiction and the potential psychological issues it can create for college students. The Internet is changing the way we live but not always in a better way. The overuse or abuse of Internet can have negative influences on our lives and lead to maladaptive behaviors (Işıklar, 2011). This is more profound in the adolescent age group of people growing up with the internet (Fisoun,

Internet addiction is a disorder and is considered as a disease if it limits the use of the Internet is substantially with daily life. According to Birdwell (2007), 7 percent of people worldwide said that their use of mobile phones and the internet caused them to lose a relationship or a job. People could use the internet on laptops or even in mobile phones. The internet therefore has become essential to the daily lives of more than one billion people. Thus, isolation and loneliness are one of the effects of being addicted to the internet. The long time spent in front of the computer or mobile reduces social activity, and this certainly affects the social relationships and caused people to lose some of their social relationships like friendships or loved ones. According to Young (n.d.), in the United States, addictive online is also the problem of infidelity. Like having an affair through the Internet connection that you get between chat rooms or in e-mail. In this study, about addictive online reported nearly 53% of the civilians on many online relationships or some of them to this serious relationship and led to marital discord, separation, and even divorce. In short, the internet can have a sever effect interpersonal

Internet addiction is a new-age phenomenon that not all people active in the modern world fully understand. To many, it is simply “playing on the computer too much”, however, those same people do not even realize that they are part of the phenomenon. It has been stated by many scientists in multiple studies that “we, as a generation in the twenty-first century, will have back problems by the time people are in our late years.” This is due to the invention and adaptation of the smart phone. Everyone has a device such as this, and spend most of their day on it in some way or another.

The Internet is a technology that has negative impacts on our daily lives. It has changed aspects of our life for the last 50 years, and it has demonstrated the considerable influence on people’s lives. Almost 3.2 billion people in the world use the internet. The Internet has gained acceptance across the globe, and it has also become a reason behind the critical changes in the modern society. Some of the changes are social isolation, health disorder, lack of privacy and internet addiction.

There is not a clear stated definition of digital addiction however Shaw and Black (2008) characterize Internet addiction by excessive or poorly preoccupations, urges or behaviours regarding computer use and internet access that lead to impairment or distress. However as the term addict is a strong description DA is seen as a general misuse of the internet in various forms, as no formal definition exists the author sees the disorder as problematic computer usage resulting in negative consequences. According to Young et al DA is a broad term covering a wide variety of behaviours and impulse control problems. K.Young (1999) also categorised DA into five subtypes of DA, they are cybersexual addiction, cyberrelationship addiction; net compulsion (e.g. gambling or shopping on the internet); information overload (e.g. compulsive database searching); and computer addiction (excessive game-playing). This project highlights social network addiction which falls into the category of cyberrelationship addiction but also contemplates all other types.

Research Paper Theme: Social Impact of the Internet 8 October 1997 ABSTRACT The Internet is the largest source of information in the world today. With its web sites and chat rooms, it is a means of communicating with people in places all over the face of the earth. Since its conception in 1973, the Internet has grown at a whirlwind rate. 51 million adults, were on-line as of the second quarter 1997 in the United States alone. Some say that the Internet is so enjoyable that it is almost addictive. The problem is that researchers are beginning to agree with them. Studies are revealing that there may be an actual form of addiction involved with over-use of the Internet. Identifying which category of addiction the Internet falls into is the

The complex Internet world is so addictive that it hurts people's families, such as personality changes, neglect of family responsibilities, and even divorce. Those reasons are seriously affecting family relationships and harmony. To begin with, divorce rate increase due to internet addiction. Such as, the divorce rates have dramatic rises at present because of people began to find another partner online. (Young, 2004, p5). This sentence explores the issue that people seek virtual partners online to ignore their spouses, this causes a gap between husband and wife, plus due to the internet addiction, they will not communicate to each other to solve the rift between them. Thus, couples will feel unhappiness and strange to each other, this will increase divorce ratesSecond point is personality will changes, people will ignore the relationship between couples. To demonstrates, people tend to

Users who spend too much time in cyberspace are typically fleeing problems with relationships or trying to address deep feelings of insecurity or loneliness…and as with other addictions, what at first seems like a pleasurable retreat from pain, gradually becomes a tyrant, interfering with work, family life and normal, healthy contact with other people (Macklin).

There are five sorts of web compulsion. The primary is Net-Gaming. Individuals with this addiction partake in internet diversions, Multi User Dungeon Games (MUDs), will visit virtual club, and very often are fixated on e-barters and web exchanging and shopping. Another kind of web fixation is Cyber-Relational Addiction. Individuals with this addiction tend to place more importance on the relationships they make through the internet, rather than their associations with their family or friends. Furthermore, they may attempt to meet those who they are met through the internet. The third sort of web fixation is Information Overload. Individuals may become fixated on finding certain data and sorting out it. This could achieve over the top enthusiastic levels. The fourth kind of web compulsion is Computer Addiction. This is not a genuine web enslavement but rather has the same qualities. Individuals with this get the opportunity to be focused on simply being on a PC. The last kind of web enslavement is Cybersexual Addiction. Individuals that fall into this classification will invest more energy survey, downloading, and exchanging online obscenity. Individuals will take part in online dream and pretending visit rooms. They may even be enticed to send explicit pictures of themselves to different clients.