Internet Addiction: I'm Befriending My Mouse

Have you ever been addicted to internet gambling or maybe you forgot to do a specific task at home or you could have even forgotten to pick your kids up from school ? All of these are examples of internet addiction and if any of these things have happened to you then you could be an internet addict. There are three main signs that you are an internet addict.

There are many different types of being an internet addict but there is one that a big problem is online gambling. People can win or lose a lot of money with online gambling and this is the reason why so many people are addicted to it. People who are most likely to have an addiction are  alcoholics or drug addicts, but it's not with just adults because as many as 750,000 young people, ages 14 to 21 have a gambling addiction.

Online gambling can cause negative affects not only physically but also mentally, people can then get many disorders such as Depression disorders,Anxiety disorders

Substance abuse disorders, Antisocial personality disorder. Just like any other addictions this can get way out of hand if you don't take control of how much you gamble.

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Next, when you get addicted to using your phone or other devices you can forget to do certain task such as picking up your children up from school or maybe you can forget to eat. All of these are things that can happen to you if you don't take care of what you do.

Works Cited

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4) Mazzola, Jessica. "Nighttime Texting Linked to Bad Grades". Nj.com. New Jersey Online LLC. 8 Oct 2015. Web. 19 Apr 2017.

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