NET ADDICTION

Are you addicted to Net? This is high time everyone, who has been accessing Net for the past significant period of time, has to check whether they have been addicted to Net knowingly/unknowingly. Following are a few questions which help you to identify whether you are addicted to Net or not. Can you stay without getting connected for a single day? Can you stay without updating your blog for 2 hours? Can you stay silent without chatting with your friends /colleagues during a single weekday? If the answer is No to all of the preceding questions, then it can be safely assumed that you are one of those internet addicted personalities. And it is time to see your nearby psychiatrist regarding your addiction.

In most of the cases, people access Net to be in touch with their colleagues' /friends/ for official communication/ to update their notes/ etc. But, what happens here is that they get habituated to do such tasks period after period and while doing so, they unknowingly gets addicted to Net. Once addicted, they access Net to check their mails even when there is no necessity to do that. It is some sort of obsessive compulsive behavior which forces them to do such sort of things. Addicts spent most of their time browsing websites irrespective of their relevancy to their work/life. They register themselves with social networking sites and start updating their personal news so that others can read and respond. The buck does not stop here. The addiction forces them to such an extent that when they are not in a position to access the Net such as during traveling, etc, unable to resist themselves, the y try to access the Net using their Blackberries and start corresponding with their buddies online.

Life won't be same once you become a Net addict. It is better to accept that you are addicted and take help from professional psychiatrists as early as possible. One another example of Net addiction is that a few people are addicted to playing games on Net. These guys and gals are emotionally attached to the scores which they try to achieve during the play. Therefore, until they defeat the other player, who is sitting somewhere in the other part of the globe, these guys won't stop playing. Sometimes, this playing event crosses 24 hours at a stretch. This kind of continuous playing harms players physically their nerves and psychologically their mental stamina. If people follow the same kind of activities continuously religiously, then the chances of becoming Net addict are not very far.

In summary, though the technology has improved by leaps and bounds, but humans have not changed much in their mental and physical capabilities. That's why this blog suggests that it is always better to use and interact with new technologies in a limited and beneficial manner.