Consequences Of Internet Addiction

play basketball, people can play basketball simply but turning on a gaming console and twiddling their thumbs on a remote to play. This is all contributing to the fact that adolescents are either losing their social skills or that these teenagers never had these social skills. That is what is so dangerous about the internet, it is causing children to lose their social skills and children are going to need these skills for their future. It is important that teenagers do not lose their social skills because of this addiction. Adolescents do not know that even though these skills do not seem important, they are going to be needed for their future endeavors. An example is how these adolescents will work with other people, on a team or …show more content…
As the current generation becomes more and more anti-social, the next generation will just follow their example. They will believe that social skills are unnecessary and ignore them more than the current generation does. They will also follow the example of not thinking it is important to be productive, leading to no new ideas to help the world advance. With each passing generation these problems will get worse. This could lead to the human race having to compete with the other animals for survival. These consequences of internet addiction are going to knock humans right off the top of the food chain. This addiction is a real thing and it needs to be stopped before too much damage has been done to the human …show more content…
However, there are still people in the world that do not believe that the addiction is real or that no real harm will come from the addiction. They argue that the internet is the medium for people to get to the real addiction that they have. Studies have shown that this addiction is not classified as the usual forms of addiction, but is an addiction none the less. The addiction that psychologists classify it as is behavioral addiction. In a study done by Alavi et al. in 2012 there is one main difference between substance addiction and behavioral addiction. The difference is that substance addiction is an addiction to the substance where a behavioral addiction is an addiction to feeling that is brought on by the action. Another argument people have against internet addiction is that it cannot be an addiction because people do not get addicted to the internet but they get addicted to things that the internet leads them to. A college student found herself seeking psychological help after she found herself dropping classes, being depressed, and using the internet to set up sexual encounters with people that she never met in real life (Konnikova, 2014). This would obviously means that people are not addicted to the internet because the internet is just a medium to the real addictions, however this is not a behavioral addiction. The addiction to the internet is behavioral and the