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Internet Addiction

Internet Addiction
Internet Addiction

Internet addiction is used for describing the variation of problems and behavior by using internet. It is known as inappropriate involvement in social sites, intemperate games, blogging, online shopping. Internet addicts feels uncomfortable due to emotional issues like as depression and anxiety, it increases the unpleasant feelings and situations which are full with stress. Previous statistics showed that more than 63 million humans use the internet at homes but students gives it more importance in daily activities such as: education, work, and relationship, emotional and physical health (Griffiths, M. 1998). Due to internet priority students not participate in social life, they totally depend on virtual world for example when there is the department of education organize any event I and my colleagues if participate in speech competition so, we don’t use our creativity, we don’t read any book for getting information on particular topic of speech, we don’t memorize previous knowledge, we just do to go on the internet for searching out the prepared material of speeches then copy & paste it and expecting a better performance(Kerr, C., Francis, B., Cross, K., Guide, G. C., & Games, I. 2019). 

Internet addiction increase the issues of stress and relationship problems with the close relationships and social relationships. There are so many types of its addiction such as overuse of internet, cyber bullying, gaming, social sites such as chat rooms, and instant messaging, scrolling them for wasting their time. Lot of people have multiple accounts on different platforms of social media for the purpose of having virtual relationships. They enjoy with virtual friends more than their family members or physical available relations (Ali, A., Horo, A., Swain, M. R., Gujar, N. M., & Deuri, S. P. 2019).

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