Saturday, July 18, 2009
CYBER ADDICTION
The coming of the World Wide Web has brought a lot of new things. There is now what is called cyber fraud, cyber crime, cyber dating, and even cyber marriage. But I have never heard anyone talk about . This is a potentially dangerous condition with serious consequencest cyber addition yet, even though I think this kind of condition is now common.Cyber addiction is when you get hooked to the web for unusually long hours and you find it very difficult to get up to do other things, you might be suffering from cyber addiction. An addiction is getting used to something to the extent that leads to negative consequences and if that thing is withdrawn, you feel inadequate. Factors responsible for cyber addiction is the greatest cause of cyber addiction is hyperlinks. When you visit a web site for a particular purpose, you are presented with other things through links. These links are created in a way to attract the visitor to click on them. Then you get to that site and there are other hyperlinks, and the process continues; by the time you realize you have visited many sites.
There are a lot of things now being offered online. You can shop, listen to music, watch movies and chat with friends. And the most interesting of it is that you can do even all this at the same time. This makes leaving the PC at times very difficult.
There are also pop-ups here and there. You are doing one thing and suddenly some window pops up and you follow and before you realize you are somewhere else.
Mailing lists and spam are other causes of cyber addition. If you joined a lot of lists, you may be receiving hundreds of mails a day. Reading all those mails might make you sit the whole day.We have to stop cyber addiction fast. So just persuade your friend who is cyber addicted to stop it. You can help them by asking them to play out door activities with you.