Surfing in the web in order to find some more resources about human and technology i found a very interesting article about Internet addiction, in other words which some parts where people are loosing control, and yes Technology can help them loose control.
The reason i am posting this article is basically because on my previous post i said that we have to use Technology for good reasons and not to harmful our lifes or others.
Let's have a look some Technological Adictions (on the Internet) that can destroy a happy family.
Internet gambling addiction
Gambling is a growing buisness on the internet and people who have gambling addction are know not just at risk in casinos. Know the casino is on every computer the compulsive gambler has access to
Internet gaming addiction
Gaming addiction is probably the most talked about internet addiction. Probably because we are seeing so many children and adolescence losing control on this type of internet addiction. The games that are most addictive are those that are played real time with real people (MMORPG= Massive multiplayer online role playing games and MMOFPS = Massive multiplayer online first person shooters)
Internet chatting addiction
Everyone is chatting and now some cannot stop chatting. First people who lost control chatting was mostly lonely housewives, but now just people who are social isolated, lonely, social phobic are at risk
Cybersex addiction
People often say sex is most search topic on the internet and cybersex is probably the web 2.0 version of sex on the internet. We are seeing lots of cases of cybersex addiction and online adultery is a growing problem
Pornographic addiction
More sex (but not web 2.0). Access to pornography has never been easier on never be so easy to hide your interest in it. So lots of people are getting hooked on pornographyon the internet
Auction addiction
Auction like eBay can also be addictive and it is probably similar to shopping addiction but with a gambling twist to it
You can found the whole article here: http://www.squidoo.com/Internet-addiction
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