Internet brings me convenience on getting information. In the past, when we need to search information, we have to go to the library or field trips. When we want to know what is happening to the world, we need to go out for buying newspapers. Nevertheless, all these things could be found on the internet, with typing a keyword on the search site, the result just come into our …show more content…
There are a lot of different kinds of information on the internet. While I want to search something for finishing my homework, I click on the icon of internet explorer, the front page is yahoo. The search engine appeared with other interesting information that I did not need. Before type the keywords into the search engine, I was easily distracted by those interesting but useless information, with delay my job. Also, I always spend more time for internet than I expect. I have a habit of watching news every day before sleep, however, I always click on some funny page after watching news, which was a waste of my time. Watching news can be finished in about 15 minutes, but spend more than 45 minutes on ‘funny pages’, like entertainment news, novels or comics. When I play my phone so happily, I did not realize that the time past so fast. It just likes a kind of addiction on accidentally clicking on those pages and did not want to leave. I cannot sleep and always spend a long time on it. This action really affects my daily routine and sleep …show more content…
I am in the very beginning stage of internet addiction, the reasons for me to spend more time for my phone are stress and loneliness. I feel like extremely busy with this semester, being a residential assistant, concerning about my final year project, and worrying about the reexamination of abnormal psychology. In the other side, I feel lonely as I do not have a roommate in this semester. With facing four walls everyday in campus, no one can share my pressure, I start to find ways to escape from the stress instead of due with it. also, developing interest can be useful to distract from internet (張勻銘, 王智弘, 陳彥如 & 楊淳斐, 2012). I would like to pay more time for stay with others. While staying with others, even we still using internet, with focusing more on useful pages and pay less time on phone. It is very important to me to find somethings that I am really interested in, as my passion cool down easily. I would like to try different kind of activities as well, as I stay in the Braemar Hill for a long time, I want to discover more about this place. Hiking in Braemar Hill can be a good way for me to not focus on internet and make internet as a tool of my life but not being the whole life. The regulation on the internet is used to protect children from harmful materials (林承宇, 2002), which banned those harmful from children to watch.