INTERNET ADDICTION

Who´´s the control -the internet or you.´
´I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.
I often check my e-mail forty times a day.
I seldom spend less than three hours during one session on the net.
I spend more time in chatrooms than with my real-life´ friends
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addicton called internet addiction.
According to researchers,Internet addicts spend at least thirty or forty hours online every week.
The use of the internet can be an addiction like alcoholism or drug use.People lose the control of the
time they spend on teh internet.
For  example ,college student was missing for severa days .His frieds were worried, and they called the
police. The police found the student in the computer lab...he was surfing the net- for seven days straight.
Current studies estmate that about 6 to 10 percent of internet user become addicted.A nd some researchers
worry particularly about young people because the internet is taking the place of the mall or the playing field for
 some of them. the teens spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.
Is ´´surfing the net ´´ a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms.
-You do not go to important family events or you do not do school projects because you like to spend hours on the internet.
-you can´t wait for your next online session.
-You´ re determined to spend a brief time online, but then you spend several hours.
-You go uot with your friends less and less.
Wthat is the cure? There counseling to gelp internet addicts-even online. Some experts recomend that people set
strict limits on their time for internet use. You have to control it. The internet shouldn´t control YOU.