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BY BRIAN FLEMING
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I magine browsing the
Web, surfing through
the endless array of
chat rooms and Websites.
Suddenly there is an inter
ruption. It is a Website
called www. virtual ad dic
tion.com.
It asks, “Do you use the
Internet often? Do you ever
find you remain on it
longer than you had in
tended? Does it give you a
sense of no boundaries?
Do you feel that you are
out of control, carried
away or emotionally and
sexually aroused by it? If
so, you could have a prob
lem: Internet addiction.”
Dr. David Greenfield
said in his book,WrmaZ
Addiction: Help for Net-
heads, Cyberfreaks and
Those. Who Love Them,
that addiction is one of the
many problems that
emerges in this period of
great technological change.
"The potential social
implications here are stag
gering,” Greenfield said.
“It can connect you
with everyone in the
world, and it can also iso
late you as well.”
This is what Greenfield
calls the “Internet paradox.”
Although much good can
come from the Internet,
Greenfield said it can also
isolate people.
“There is some prelimi
nary research that suggests
that more time spent online
and on computers corre
lates with higher degrees of
social isolation and depres
sion,” he said.
Greenfield said his re
search shows the number of
isolated addicts is growing.
“Nearly 4 percent of my
survey of almost 18,000 In
ternet users met the stan
dards for a compulsive use
pattern,” he said. “At this
level, based on 50,000,000
users worldwide, it means
there are nearly 2,000,000
Internet addicts. ”
Greenfield said online in
timacy is one cause of ad
diction that can lead to nu
merous problems.
“There have been nu
merous cases, of which I am
aware, in which people
started out on the Net only
for the purposes of engaging
in casual conversation,
which ended up being high
ly sexual in nature.
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