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For example: video games, television, Internet, smartphones are all debatable for calling something an addiction. Is it because people don't know what the word addiction even means? Or how much time we spend on it? There are tons of people who read to much as well.
For example: video games, television, Internet, smartphones are all debatable for calling something an addiction. Is it because people don't know what the word addiction even means? Or how much time we spend on it? There are tons of people who read to much as well.
Do you know what an addiction is? A video game isn't an addiction neither is a TV or a smartphone. A cigarette or a gram of cocaine aren't addictions either.
First of all, you can be physically or psychologically addicted to something.
Then an element of addiction is what happens when the drug or activity is no longer available to the person. Typically distress or physical withdrawal symptoms.
With that said, I have witnessed two separate young people have their cell phones (texting devices) break. Both people went into a state of "mental agitation", almost like a chicken with its head cut off running around in circles flapping its wings!
Because it is an addiction... People get addicted. Ever try going to work without your phone?
Cut off your Internet access for a month. There will times where you say to yourself, "Damn! Now, I have to go to the library or sit at Starbucks with my laptop."
As defined by Merriam-Webster, "compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance".
If you ever go out to dinner with a group of people, have everyone put their phones in the center of the table. Whoever touches their phone first has to pay the bill.
People get addicted to all sorts of things, including video games and technology. It becomes an addiction when it had a negative effect on your life, and you can't stop engaging in it even though there are negative consequences. My Mom had an elderly neighbor who was addicted to QVC shopping, she spent a large amount of her limited funds on it, and would get my Mom to agree to allow the packages to be delivered to my Mom's house so that her daughter didn't find out how much she was buying.
I also had a friend who was very smart, but ended up flunking out of college due to a Dungeons and Dragons addiction.
People get addicted to all sorts of things, including video games and technology. It becomes an addiction when it had a negative effect on your life, and you can't stop engaging in it even though there are negative consequences. My Mom had an elderly neighbor who was addicted to QVC shopping, she spent a large amount of her limited funds on it, and would get my Mom to agree to allow the packages to be delivered to my Mom's house so that her daughter didn't find out how much she was buying.
I also had a friend who was very smart, but ended up flunking out of college due to a Dungeons and Dragons addiction.
That's what happens when the only reward in society is money. oops....
For example: video games, television, Internet, smartphones are all debatable for calling something an addiction. Is it because people don't know what the word addiction even means? Or how much time we spend on it? There are tons of people who read to much as well.
It's an addiction especially when people are in denial.
Addictions are an escape from reality.
Anything done in excess will cause problems.
With technology, one can zone out and lose the ability to personally relate to people on a human level where face-to-face contact's required and actual social skills dwindle.
This creates problems on a very unhealthy level because we're social creatures and our ability to survive is by way of relating to one another in the real world, offline, and off impersonal mediums like computers, cell phones, etc., etc. But, maybe Stephen Hawking who argues that our way of survival is through materialism in our evolution may be right.. maybe not. It's still bogus though, especially if we can't extract enough natural resources to create the technology that somehow has helped us to progress and regress at the same time.
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