Internet Addiction

Internet addiction can be simply termed as 'addiction over Internet or over activities dependent exclusively on the use of Internet. It was beginning of the year 1995 when Dr. Ivan Goldberg, the leading psychiatrist from New York City, argued that an increasing number of people are actually abandoning their life-related and family-related responsibilities as a result of their gazing over computer while using Internet for long and long hours, the account of Internet addiction was marked for the first time. But since the very beginning the concept of Internet addiction has been known as a topic of strong debate where the logics for both its existent and non-existent nature have true weight. Researchers never failed to accept the advantages of Internet in the area of valuable information to support groups, treatment options to academic help or recreation. The researchers agree that almost all of them are valuable in their own era and almost all the components are effectual in fulfilling their own requirement as a service. But the question arises when the discussion is focused on 'too much of good things'. As we know that 'too much of anything is good for nothing', we should focus on understanding whether the obscurity of the Internet service offering too much of good thing is actually good for all the individuals who are receiving the service. Although Goldberg used the term 'Internet Addiction' as a practical joke or hoax, many researchers, psychologists and theorists actually include this term to describe this hazard in practice.