Internet Addiction?
Question by Jon L: Internet Addiction?
What kind of games or stuff online that make people become addicted?
And is it true that someone died from playing on the computer too long? Please help!
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Answer by updownpump
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And now the answer to your question…
Things online that make people become addicted.
-Runescape (1 million + are addicted)
– WOW
– Multiplayer Games (Yahoo, Pogo, etc.)
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China Internet Addiction – China has cemented its position as the world’s largest Internet population, with the number of Internet users reaching a staggering 300 million at the end of 2008, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre. But there is a downside. At a newly created Internet addiction treatment centre, Cheng Jiawei had to finish one last exercise of arranging toy figurines in a sandpit, a way her doctors could understand how her mind worked. Once spending 15 hours a day in Internet cafes, Cheng’ arrangements toned down after two and a half months at China’s largest Internet addiction treatment centre. [Cheng Wei, Patient]: “When I played video games, I believed that I was one character in the games. I made ‘friends’ playing video games that I couldn’t make in real life.” Cheng’s family spent 3700 dollars on the treatment, while some 60 children are in the treatment centre. Tao Ran founded China’s biggest Internet addiction treatment centre, and is now looking for additional space as more people knock on the door for help. [Tao Ran, Director]: “There are more than 200 organisations offering treatment for internet addiction in China now. If it weren’t for the fast increase in the number of these hospitals, we would have many more people coming here for help.” The treatment does not come cheap – each patient pays about 1500 dollars (USD) a month, sometimes staying for up to three months. Many are referred to psychotic hospitals for various medical conditions, including …
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From Twitter:
ABQJournal Online » ‘Internet Addiction’ a Mental Illness? http://t.co/GVMEjaOw via @abqjournal FOR HELP http://t.co/ycEWHoXO – by AddictionAust (Addiction Australia)
From Twitter:
@ellieharvs we need mental help for this shopping/spending addiction !! What did you get off the internet!? – by Sophsmith_ (Sophie Smith)
From Twitter:
All i do all day is internet shop. Some one help me get over my addiction D; #ITSRREALLYBAD. – by Sapphire_Thawe (Sapphirelikethestone)
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18 Responses to Internet Addiction?
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Games, particularly MMORPG’s such as World of Warcraft, Runescape, pogo and other site games. But its not just games that have people becoming addicted to the internet, its can be anything, some worse than others. Some people get addicted to myspace, facebook, ebay, forums, yahoo answers, porn, anything you can think of.
And yes, its very true that people have died from playing the internet too long. Not that long ago a boy in China died and a year or two ago a boy in Korea, they didn’t eat, sleep or anything it was solid 24-hour computer runs.
In my public speaking class last semester we did a paper on internet addiction, some of the stories we read in class were awful, everything from flunking out of college to marriages breaking up, betrayals…the internet can be a good thing or a bad thing, depening on how you use it.
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Due to? addiction CHINA BANNED YOUTUBE Noooooooo!
Lol? psychotic hospital.
Hahaha so fucking stupid.?
Yes, because everything is? a mental illness. Of course.
No it is an Australian? accent
No, that’s a British accent. lol. I hope? you were trolling.
here you go brain-washing on a can.?
You know what none of these kids do…… smoke a? joint…
So, what’s going to happen when they get out? Internet again, surrounded by your? friends talking about some new game or some funny video. They’re going to go back to their old ways.
…. I want to be? Cheng Wei’s friend…D:
Just get a boyfriend? gg.
“Psychotic hospitals?” LOL. I? think you need to check the dictionary.
Wow, talk about a waste of taxpayer money.?
At :55 ‘Cheng Wei’ says she couldn’t make certain types of friends in real life?
That’s very weird , cause she is a very pretty? girl.
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