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Social and Psychological Impact of the Internet

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Social and Psychological Impact of the Internet

INTRODUCTION

For centuries people have found psychologically or physically dependent on many behaviors and substances. This is not a mere interest, but a consistent pattern of use that can lead to an eventual negative impact on performance, affecting marriage, relationships, work, economics and even the legal status. Therefore, what is important in addiction is not the particular activity that generates dependence, but the relationship established with her. It's a negative; even destructive to the individual is unable to control.

Internet is a tool that many advantages are attributed to education, commerce, entertainment and ultimately for the development of the individual. Participation in groups allows us to interact with virtual people with our own interests wherever they are physically located. In a study of these discussion groups, McKenna and Bargh (1998) found that this medium allowed those with stigmatized individuals (based on gender or ideology) to reach a large self-acceptance that ultimately led to disclose to family and friends for their identity hidden. This makes the virtual group membership becomes an important part of their identity.

However, Internet is also attributed negative properties. The internet helped to reduce the social circle and affecting psychological wellbeing, social activity displacing and replacing the ties strong for weaker ones. The friendships created in the network appear to be more limited than those backed by physical proximity.

In recent years, evidence of negative consequences related to Internet use has led several authors to propose the existence of Internet addiction disorder similar to the problems encountered with other addictive behaviors (gambling, sex, work, etc.).

DISCUSSION

With the development, of Internet and its exponential growth have also appeared the first cases of network-related psychopathology. The disorder dependence of the network is known by many names: Internet addiction disorder-Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), compulsive Internet use or pathological use Internet - Pathological Internet Use (PIU).

One of the problems is: why addicts become addicted to the Internet? Is the access or content that is the Internet itself? In this regard the term addiction to the computer / Internet, and defined as a phenomenon or putative disorder that depends on both the medium and the message, without leaning in favor of either. An example of the problems we found in the relationship between sexual addiction and Internet addiction. An individual who was addicted to sex pages, would it be a sex addict, the Internet, or both. In this case, it would be difficult to understand that there was a phone addiction itself.

In addition, technological addictions are defined as non-chemical addictions that involve human-machine interaction. These may be passive (as television) or active (such as PC gaming or internet). This would be a form of psychological or behavioral addiction, which in turn would include Internet addiction.

NEGATIVE EFFECTS

One aspect that differentiates a psychological addiction to a chemical addiction is that the former has the terrible consequences that can have negative physical latter. Still, in the case of Internet addiction have also highlights some implications, especially those resulting ...