Thursday, November 02, 2006

A new type of an addiction

A new type an addiction has been popping up across the World. Serbia has recently opened a counseling center for people who have an Internet addiction. People who have an Internet addiction spend upwards of four hours of free time per day on a computer. The reason why Serbia opened this center because as someone would become more addicted to the internet the addicted person would stop talking to people in the real world and in turn would only talk to those in their virtual world. Although many would think that an Internet addiction would be directed towards teenagers who play video games online, but in reality the center has started treating adults between the ages 30 and 50. So if you know someone and no matter what age who spends too much time in the virtual world there is help.

1 comment:

Jennifer Stehly said...

The internet has grown throughout the years, from general information to email and newspapers to facebook. The internet has become addicting because of the fact that you can do almost everything on it and the fact that colleges and jobs make you use it doesn't help. The most popular internet site that makes internet addicting is Facebook. This is a well known feature that many spend hours on. I know I spend at least 2 hours everyday on the internet wether it is talking to friends on AIM or doing my Blogger for Econ. It's very addicting and there is no way to stop it.