Internet addiction

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Five years ago, psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg invented the word”internet ”as a joke. No one is laughing anymore.

Internet addiction has emerged as a serious and problem. As more go , people are engaging in risky . Tracy Jones is one of them. A divorced mother of two in Portland,Oregon, she a chat room last may and got . Soon she meals and staying up late at night to chat with new-found friends. She began work and neglected her kids.

Jay Parker, an addiction counselor in Seattle, convinced her she was the Internet. When she tried to stop, she into depression and attempted suicide. Finally on July 9, she chat rooms and entered a six-week treatment center. By December, she was back at work, living again.

knows how many people develop personal problems because of Internet . An ABC News of more than 17,000 people last year found that 6 percent of Web users, about , could be addicted. them are housewives obsessed with chatting rooms; students logging into online games and husbands having Internet .

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