Avoid Internet Addiction

INTERNET ADDICTION IN PICTURES

According to Dr. Douglas Gentile, Director of the Media Research Lab at lowa State University reports, "Almost one out of the ten youth shows enough symptoms of damage to their school and family.
Beyond gaming kids are filling their free time with other internet activities: social networking, instant messaging (IM), blogging, downloading, gaming etc.

Signs & Symptoms
•Lack of sleep, excess fatigue
•Spending so much time in front of computer
•Declining grades
•Lying about how much time is spent online and what they do there
•Irratability when off-line.
My next post will be the prevention on how to avoid Internet Addiction.

Kids ages of 8 to 18 spending on average 44.5 hours per week in front of screens, parents are increasingly concerned that overuse of technology might affect the health of their children. 23% of youth report that they feel "addicted to video games"(31% of males and 13% of females) this study is conducted by Harris interactive (2007)that documents the usage of video games.

What is internet addiction?
•Internet addiction is defined as an unhealthy bahavior of one person. Like other addictions, overuse of internet affects a person's life, until it dictates and ruled the whole human system. Addicts struggle to control their bahavior which leading them to dig deeper in their addictive pattern and make them harder to avoid it.