Cought in the Net

Nowadays, it is difficult to find a person who does not use the Internet.

The majority begin their morning with the social networks. And just after that have breakfast.

And even pre-school age children perfectly well know how to turn on the computer.

(I started to use computer when I was 10.)

In our society appears internet addiction problem.

Computer addicts when they are in the net completely lose sense of time and do not feel what's going on around them.

They may forget that they need to eat or go to sleep.

Internet addiction symptoms:

Use of the Internet in increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction.

Feelings of restlessness, moodiness, depression, or irritability when attempting to cut down use of the Internet.

Investing more and more time and money with computer related activities.

Changes in daytime

Facts

The amount of regular internet users in Latvia since 2001. increased from 4% to 67%.

Every day has been sent 24 billion e-mails

Young people spend an average 31 hours a week in the net.

In 2010th a couple of South Korea, playing online games in the internet starved to death their newborn daughter.

The spent 10 hours a day in internet cafe.

I wanted to know how addicted to the Internet I am. So I found a quiz.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/28/quiz-how-addicted-to-the-internet-are-you/

There was 10 questions For example:

If you're at a social event and your phone dies, do you stay and continue socializing or go home to charge that thing up?

You’re out running errands and realize you forgot your phone at home. How do you feel?

I scored 10% 0 – 25 % Wow, do you even have a

wifi connection? You're not addicted to the Internet at all. You probably do exotic things like read books and go outside and speak to people face-to-face. We're surprised you even found this quiz!

I am not suprised of such result because I really do not understand how people can spend so much time in the Internet.

How you can see I am not addicted to the Internet and I am sure taht you too can find many interesting things what to do in real life