Others may say that technology was made to improve communication, but in reality it has caused people to have poor face-to-face communications. Nowadays kids are born with technology all around them and the technology has affected them without them knowing. Everywhere …show more content…
Not only doing you have thoses internet addicted people but there are also the social media and sexual content additives. The difference between them are that internet addiction is when people are always in the internet exploring things or playing games, social media addiction is when people can’t stop going on facebook, twitter, instagram, and tumblr, and lastly sexual content addiction is when people use the internet for any sexual-oriented content (Scott). All this types of addictions are very bad because people are relying too much internet and later on it can cause them problems. Even though technology addiction might not be an actual disease it has caused many mental and physical problems. Without you knowing, technology will start taking over your body and later on not have any control over it. “A study in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology found that Internet addicts had reduced levels of transporters for dopamine, the brain chemical that generates feelings of pleasure (Scott).” Each time someone use the internet to playing games or simply to browse the internet, the brain is overpacked with dopamine, which later on the dopamine receptors decrease their activity in the brain. Decreasing the activity in the brain may cause mood swings, poor attention, and even depression. Not only are people risking to enter depression but they are also risking get