The Problem Of The Internet

One example found in the article of dangerous behavior caused by internet addiction is of a kid killing his mom and injuring his dad because they took away his xbox. Another example is of a couple who cared more about their online baby that forgot to take care of their living baby which ended up dying.

Today’s teens mental and physical health has declined in recent years due to internet use. A study conducted by Pew Research Center in 2015 found that 92% of teens go online daily and 24% of them almost constantly. This amount of internet usage results

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.

The idea behind the internet was to revolutionize society and with over 3 billion individuals using it, it clearly succeeded (ITU, n.d.). However, individuals started coming online to check their email, watch a video, visit Facebook, or play an online game as a habit, may easily become addicted to these behaviors over time. According to the DSM-V, internet addiction applies to individuals who use the internet excessively, often without realizing how much time has passed, how much more they are using the internet and neglecting their basic needs, as well as, ignoring any negative impacts said internet use has caused (dsm). When not using the internet, the individual may feel withdrawal, angry, tense, and/or depressed; in addition, they may feel the need to have a better computer and more software, which is an internet-addicted individual’s form of tolerance (dsm). Time of use per day in those addicted to the internet is nearly double the time those who are not addicted spend online (Lee,

As technological advances are being made every day, the average adult has begun to increase their screen time daily. More people are spending time on their devices, than going out and interacting with others and their community. People also tend According to a study by David Greenfield, this addiction occurs to individuals who are unable to interact with others in real life and tend to be “socially reclusive” (Greenfield 1). This highlights how some individuals feel uncomfortable connecting in person, so they go to social media to assist them in mingling with other people who share similar problems. Unlike past generations, millenials have been using the internet much more as a platform to interact and this has caused several individuals to become addicted to their personal devices. This real life fear also causes many who attempt to withdraw from this addiction to have long term side effects. Some of these effects consist of “experience withdrawal including: anger, depression, relief, mood swings, anxiety, fear, irritability, sadness, loneliness, boredom, and restlessness” (Greenfield 1). As shown by the symptoms, internet addiction is a growing problem that current adolescents face. This fear is far more than justified as hundreds of studies have sampled and diagnosed individuals combatting this addiction. Another negative impact of internet addiction is that it can isolate one from the rest of the world and cause them to neglect things that are happening around them. Although everything may seem normal at first, as one grows older this can have long term effects on their social life. Internet addiction is one of many technological fears faced by the world

In the article, “Caught in the Web: More People Say Heavy Internet Use is Disrupting Their Lives, and Medical Experts are Paying Attention” by January W. Payne argues that using technology too much, has consequences that can affect the people around, and the individual’s health as well. At the same time, many people use internet excessively, and do not realize that, they might get further from the outside world. According to a research by Stanford University, demonstrated, that people spend on the internet about 3 or more hours daily. Many people are getting addictive to the internet, because they see it as an escape from problems, while others use it as a way to relax themselves. As people addiction to the internet increase, people isolate

This article will guide me through my research because it gives a vast perspective into the addictive world. It explains the issues of internet addiction, how it's emerging as a global concern, also how and why the internet has been integrated in our everyday lives.

The Internet is a worldwide system of computer networks. Today, it is a public, cooperative and self­-sustaining facility accessible to millions of people. This global access to a new world has its shortcomings. One of many that might be considered the most important is addiction; I can easily confess that I see myself as a cell phone addicted person. After reading the article “Half of Teens Think They” by Kelly Wallace, I came to a conclusion that I am not the only one who faces this impasse. However, the article also says that it is difficult to say how many teens are truly addicted to their devices and the Internet. Also it is found a problem, because parents feel their teens spend too much time on their mobile devices. Trying to solve this difficulty, some parents came up with solutions.

In the article, “The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good of kids Use of Social Media,” Jim Taylor gives us a definition of the phrase internet addiction. He states, “Internet addiction is commonly characterized as excessive use of internet that interferes with daily functioning and that can lead to distress or harm,”. The addiction from the internet surely has a price to pay. Internet addiction is harmful psychologically, addictions to the internet shouldn’t be our only concern when it comes to social media, and internet addiction has no age limit.

In addition, many children are required to use technology while there are in school. There is also a plethora of other reasons in which someone must use technology or a mobile device. While although there are many instances in which both adults and youth must use technology, enough is enough. Technology addiction is causing numerous health issues, causing people to lose their identity and even causing people to harm their relationships in the real world. However, the use of technology is not the issue, the issue is the abuse of technology and as a result, becoming addicted to it. If both parents and children are able to recognize the problem and use the steps to change something in the way they use technology, then maybe there would not be so many individuals addicted. Agarwal finds that, “More than 60% of Americans said they were addicted to the internet” (171). However, this statistic only includes those who were able to admit they were addicted. There may be many more people who need help and are unwilling to admit it. Both parents and their children need to step up and face the outbreak with confidence. As Vince Lombardi says, “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will”. What Lombardi was trying to say can apply directly so how to solve technology addiction. If people know about the issue, but are

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.

“Dressed in black masks and tactical gear, armed with long guns and pistols, they entered a holiday party for county health workers in San Bernardino as it was in full swing. Before they fled, they had killed 14 people and wounded 17 others” (Serrano) On December 2, 2015 Syed Rizwan Farook, and Tashfeen Malik entered a health facility in San Bernardino and started a rampage to innocent victims. After leaving the Inland Regional Center, local law enforcements were able to make contact with them leading into a police chase. Last but not least they faced off and two of the terrorists were killed, however they discovered a female who was a third person in this brutal attack. As investigators were trying to find the motive behind this tragedy, the FBI found three iPhones in the trash, two of the phones were physically and internally damage. The third phone happened to be fine, the only problem was that it was locked with a password. Majority of iPhone users knows that the iPhone will erase all the data after it’s tenth unsuccessful password. In addition, the FBI requested Apple to create a software where they can hack into this iPhone in order to prevent another terrorist attack. However where this agreement ends, Apple cannot create a software without harming the iPhone community. The FBI took action and decided to take this argument to a judge. Moreover, Apple denied once again and the FBI is taking this argument to court. This case is now in process as the opening statements

The problem that is ever increasing in size and complexity is the Internet being a danger to people. The Internet problem is something that is caused by many things like Malware, Spoofing, Viruses and ransomware. Some of the effects of the problem are loss of finances and personal information. Another few are victims losing their identity to others and damage to their property. With the amount of danger the causes make the solution to the problem should be clear and easy to think and make. Yet sadly the problem with making the solution is people have come up with only small patches that minimize the damage and lower the chances of being the victim of it but none have solved the problem in it’s entirety. Many of the partial solutions either protect from the problem by fighting it or by avoiding it altogether. An example of avoiding the danger is by having programs that have a list of known malicious programs and doesn 't let any of those onto the device. A true solution to this problem would need to either make the problem disappear altogether or to make the problem not be able to affect people and their devices.

The Internet org. might not work efficiently in India, neither in culture nor technological method. For cultural reason, religion would be the first cause which makes extremely negative effect for expanding internet service in India. Since the Hinduism is a kind of close religion, such as it does not encourage people to travel away from India, the ethic might not encourage people to use new technology such as internet. In addition, education is still a problem in India. The literacy in India is 74.04 percent, which is lower than the world average level according to the research of census (2011). However, there are still some positive aspects for the organisation. Although the language aspect might cause serious problems for the expansion due to a number of native languages, English, which is a global and the most common internet language, could be used by a number of Indian because India was the colony of the UK. Moreover, based on the colony history, the company might be accepted by local people easily, due to the assimilatory education (Science Encyclopedia 2014). Consequently, although there are advantages for the organisation to expand into Indian market, the disadvantage might make bigger effect because the religion could influence people’s mind and daily life when we concerned with the culture aspect.

The wide spread of internet addiction disorder causes a series of problem. Firstly, some teenagers who have an internet addiction disorder can not distinguish the visual world and reality. They spend too much time on the internet, and most of internet website need open up an account, those accounts can set up everything like personal images, habits, favorite food. This makes them feel like they lives in the internet. Teenagers who have an internet addiction disorder prefer to spend most of time on it, and it will make them confused between real and virtual world. (Flora, 2015, p121) Besides, most of the people have psychological problems because of internet addiction disorder. According to the articles, “For example, both Internet and gambling addiction are associated with a high level of stress, loneliness and low social support”. (Flora, 2015, p124) Moreover, most of young patients want to avoid reality through surfing on the internet. But actually avoid the predicament is not suitable way, the only way to solve the difficulty is to face difficulties. (Flora, 2015, p127) In conclusion, internet addiction disorder makes them confused about the reality and virtual world, psychological and do not facing the difficulty.