Tag: INTERNETADDICTION

Five years ago, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a survey that determined kids between the ages of 8 and 18 spent a whopping 6.5 hours a day on the Internet. According to the New York Times, one of the study's researchers initially thought that the usage statistics could not possibly increase in the future because of a lack of "enough hours in the day." The Foundation recently ...

On top of all the natural insecurities and volatile emotions that characterize adolescence, you can now add the girlish gossip-mongering of the Facebook age, where high school dating drama follows gals home and the family laptop becomes the central location of anxiety, woe, and "Oh no, she di-int." Granted, they may just want to have fun, but growing girls don't always have an easy time of it. ...

We've heard plenty of stories about people losing jobs due to inappropriate posts on Facebook, but this is the first time we've heard it suggested that a person was disciplined for Facebook addiction. Sources have suggested to the Staten Island Advance that Criminal Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino, Jr. was transferred from his post in the Forgotten Borough to a Brooklyn court, due, at least ...

You know that pit in your stomach you get when you're out at night, you reach in your pocket for the obligatory, mindless, precautionary cell phone check, and (gasp!) the battery's dead? Or how your hands get all clammy and your mouth turns to the Mojave desert whenever you're trying to check your e-mail, but, for whatever reason, your Internet connection just won't cooperate? Don't worry. You're ...

Forget those boot camps for Internet addicts in China. In America, we work out our problems on television. That's why MTV is searching for Internet addicts to star in a new installment of its 'True Life' series. According to urlesque, the episode will be titled 'I Can't Disconnect.' If you've never watched the documentary series, each episode focuses on a different topic, from the absurd ("I'm a ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/08/21/u-s-gets-its-first-net-addiction-rehab-center/'; Internet addiction has been blamed for bad grades, lackluster sex lives, and violence. Now, finally completing its rise to the status of a serious affliction, it has its first rehabilitation center in the U.S. reSTART, a new Internet addiction recovery center 25 miles outside of Seattle, features a ...

Folks are finding less time to spend with those closest to them, and are spending more time pecking at a keyboard and stare at a glowing square. In no way should we be the first to cast stones here, but the findings of a new study by the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California bother us just a bit. USA Today reported that, according to the study, ...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently urged graduates of the University of Pennsylvania to turn off their computers and gadgets in order to get outside and engage in actual human-to-human interaction. According to SiliconValley.com, John Ribovich, a teacher at Milpitas High School in California, last week decided to impart the same lesson to his senior English students. While guiding lessons on ...

We've discussed before how constant connectivity has become a source of stress, distraction, and even addiction for Americans. We've even suggested taking regular breaks from technology, where you completely unplug for a day or a week, just to get a respite from the constant barrage of IMs and e-mail that so many of us face. Soren Gordhamer, a self-proclaimed stress-reduction expert, however, ...

Facebook has been blamed for a lot -- from firings and arrests to millions of dollars in lost productivity -- but now, according to a new study, Facebook can be blamed for ruining college students' GPAs. Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that, on average, students who use Facebook ...

For people who follow Internet trends, the rapid evolution and proliferation of Facebook provides endless fodder for discussion and analysis. According to Facebook, the site now boasts a membership of over 200 million people, a number of cyber-citizens that, if real, would qualify Facebook as the fifth largest country in the world. Some analysts believe Facebook may be reaching its saturation ...

Remember when we indicated that half of women would rather spend time online than being intimate with their partners? Many of you reacted with disbelief and many of you agreed wholeheartedly. Regardless of your opinions on the subject, it seems that the sentiment is shared in Europe as well, with a survey of 20-something-year-old couples finding that 84-percent of them would rather break up ...

Remember a time before video games and the Internet? When the world was a peaceful, loving place, free of murderers, sexual deviants and other purveyors of violence and filth? Apparently, some people do, as yet another study linking Internet usage and violence among the youth has been released. The report, published by the Journal of Adolescent Health (with a disclaimer that the results are not ...

Okay, look, we know that unchecked addiction to the Internet and social networking sites is going to have a negative impact on your mental abilities and attention span, but warnings from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield make Facebook out to be an epidemic worse than the Bubonic Plague and Rickrolling combined. Most of the news isn't new; scientists believe that the Internet is changing how ...

While American psychiatrists continue to debate whether an unhealthy affinity for all things online is really a illness or just a passing fancy, their Chinese counterparts have made up their minds. After creating halfway-houses and clinics to wean netizens off of their dependency, doctors there have now created an official classification of Internet addiction for people who spend six hours or more ...