Monica Roccaforte Know

Internet Addiction

Internet Addiction (infoholizm or siecioholizm) is defined as Internet Addiction Team ZUI (called Internet Addiction Disorder , IAD) - the syndrome of addiction to the Internet user from hours of being in this environment

INFOHOLIZMU TYPES:

by Dr. Kimberly Young - a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery in Bradford (USA)

first Dependence on trade virtual

- Internet socjomania

- dependence on social networking sites

- excessive involvement in associations in the network (virtual)

- is expressed through participation in mailing lists , IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and in contacts via email

second Erotomania Internet

- is watching movies and photos with the materials of erotic and pornographic or pogawędkach the huts of sexual

- on the ground are often other disorders and sexual deviations such as pedophilia, vojeryzm (voyeurism; Feeling any sort of sexual pleasure of voyeurism of other people), exhibitionism and other

third Computer addiction

- a sick person does not need to "stay" in the network - just that he spends time at the computer, regardless of whether the important work he writes, arranges, or solitaire

- usually manifests itself in obsessive playing computer games

4th Dependence on network

- is to stay on the internet

- it is very similar to the dependence on the computer, but relies on being in a network

- sick all the time they are logged in. network and observe what is happening there

- obsessively playing online games, participate in auctions, etc.

- making it combines all other forms of ZUI

5th Information Overload

- compulsive Web surfing or browsing databases

- occurs when so much information, such as being in multiple chat rooms simultaneously, participated in many discussion lists

INFOHOLIZMU PHASE:

first Initial phase

- staying in the network is a pleasure

- increase the increased desire to stay in the network

- a loss of sense of time spent in front of the computer

second The warning phase

- look as often as the opportunity to reside in the network

- Discharge voltage network

- try to use the network in secret

- Use of the Web brings relief

- lack of desire to return to reality

third critical phase

- a decrease of interest unrelated to the network

- neglecting appearance

- neglecting sleep

- irregular eating

- a strong need to reside on the network

- Constant thinking about what is happening in the network

- the need to increase the amount of time spent in the network

- making unsuccessful attempts to reduce the time spent in the network

- a sense of exasperation, frustration, anger, when something or someone forces us to shorten the time to participate in the network or prevent the use of the

- neglect of education, employment, withdrawal from social gatherings, after the deposition of the urgent tasks for the use of network

- lying to others about the time spent online (squeeze the actual number of hours spent at the computer)

- the emergence of family disputes in connection with the computer

- allocating more money for the purchase of computer hardware, software, accessories, and books and magazines about computers

- is a loss of control over their own behavior

4th Chronic phase

- periods of prolonged exposure on the network

- Staying in the network in order to live strong emotions

- the virtual world becomes the world

- breakdown of family ties

- professional and social degradation

- somatic

- anxiety, psychosis

- recourse to other means of changing the mood (alcohol, drugs)

- a sense of meaning in life in the real world

- appropriate to subject

study based on materials from the Conference Fri "The Internet, a brilliant invention, or uncontrollable threat to human values?" held dn. 14.09.2010 in Wroclaw.

Interesting links:

http://www.dzieckowsieci.pl/strona.php?p=83
http://www.fdn.pl/strona.php?p=25