INTERNET ADDICTION
INTERNET ADDICTION

Summary/Abstract: With the expansion of Internet accessibility, newspapers started reporting on the phenomenon of intemet addiction; for example in Great Britain in 1995, in the USA in 1996 (Griffiths 1998). In 1995 Newsweek reported that 2-3% of Internet users who spent most of their leisure time on-line were addicted to the Internet. Just as television had been once, the Internet, too, was accused of contributing to the decay of family values, morals and the emergence of other social ills (Pratarelli, Browne & Johnson 1999).

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