Internet Addiction

     Internet becomes a part of our life, as a new technology comes to our vision, it brings us many advantages.However, at the same time, it also creates many problems, internet addiction is one of those problems.
     The video talks about internet addiction, one point of view that it mentions gives me some ideas of internet addiction. It says that:"It is not a matter of how many hours that you spend online,but the matter of your behavior." Sometimes, we have to face our computer and go online to find some resources for many hours, but it does not mean that we are addicted to internet. The long time spend online is just a feature of  people who are addicted to internet. People who can not help themselves without the internet are addicted to internet,most often they are uncomfortable when they leave without internet, some are even getting mad. In addition, the video also points out that internet is a tool for people to develop and spread their interests, so for those people, what they are addicted is not the internet, but just use internet as a tool to get more addicted to their interests, because internet are quiet convenient. For example, people who are interested in shopping, due to the convenience of the internet, now they could buy things online. For them, they are not addicted to use internet, they just use the advantage of internet to spread what they used like to do. The fact that what they are addicted still is shopping. Therefore, for those people, we should not consider that they have internet addiction.
    Internet addiction becomes a social problem, which influence our society as well. For instance, because there are many people have internet addiction, some are even terrible. To help those people, there are some treatment institution exist. Some parents send their children to those institution, they want to with the help of those institution, their kids could leave the addiction towards internet. Moreover, because people are into using internet, internet bar are popular in China.With my own experience, many of my classmates, especially boys, are likely to go to the internet bar, even there is just one hour for them to play online games. Because of their wants of internet, there are many internet bar in China. In addiction, we are often seeing the sign of "Wifi inside" no matter in the door of a restaurant or a coffee bar even book store. They reason why the put the sign is to attract more customers, and the reason why the sign could attract people's attention is because people want internet. To be honest, if I am planning to go to a restaurant or a coffee bar, whether they have internet is one of the most important aspect that I will look at. Hence, we could realize that internet addiction is quite common for nowadays people.People may have it in different levels, but it do influence our daily activities.
    But why people are quite into using internet? The reason for every individual may quite varied, but I think there are still some main reasons. First, like for those people who just use internet as a tool to develop their own interests, they just take the advantages of internet. Because internet are convenient, and easy to access to, it is more comfortable for them to approach their interests. Taking a specific example, such as the people who tend to buy things online.Because internet is quick and convenient, so if there are something that they want to buy, they could get right a minute.Due to the feature that internet are easy to access to, they could have more options when they plan to buy something.And because the internet is almost free, so they much often could get what they want at a cheaper price. As thus, for them, why they are into using internet is because they wanna take advantages from internet, but not really like have internet addiction. However, for those who really have internet addiction, they reason for them are mostly that they want to escape from reality, and the way the choose is the internet. For instance, many teenagers play online games day and night, what they really want may not be the internet, but run away from pressure. In China, due to the large population, the competition between teenagers are quite stressful. They are under super pressure, not only from parents, but also from teachers and their own classmates. To escape from those pressure, some of them try to play online game. In that virtual world, they could forget their pressure, as thus, they are addicted to the internet.
    The internet as a new technology do bring us many advantages, as well as creating some new problems. But what we should do is trying to take the advantages of it, and solve the problems it creates as much as possible. It is not a individual problem, but a social problem, so we should try our best to cope with it together.