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Term Paper Title	Investigative Report Of Internet Addiction
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Investigative Report Of Internet Addiction

     Prepared for
     Dr. Jere Mitchum
     By
     Marwan
     November 4 , 1996

TABLE OF CONTENT

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ...............................................iv
ABSTRACT.............................................................v
INTRODUCTION ........................................................1
Purpose .............................................................1
Growth Of The Internet ..............................................1
THE ADDICTION .......................................................2
What causes it ......................................................2
Symptoms ............................................................3
How To Overcome The Addiction........................................4
The elements of any addiction........................................4
CONCLUSION ..........................................................8
One Last Interesting Question .......................................9
REFERENCES ..........................................................10

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Figures

1. The number of networks connected to the Internet vs. Time.
2. The percentage of the Internet domains
3. Will the equation people = Internet Users be true in 2001?

ABSTRACT

The problem of Internet addiction is not very noticeable now and that's why not
many people are taking it seriously, but what these people are failing to see is
the connection between the very rapid growth of the Internet and the addiction
problem. It is really simple logic the bigger the Internet get  the more users
will be which will lead to a bigger number of addicts that can have their lives
as well as others corrupted by this behavior.  The main objective of this paper
is to make sure that all reader know and understand what Internet addiction is
and how it can be solved or avoided. I can not offer a professional psychiatric
solution but I believe if a person knows more about  the addiction, the better
chance they have to help themselves as well as others; that's why I have
included a short summary of the elements of addiction.

I hope that by the time you read my paper you will have a better understanding
about this issue to keep yourself as well as others of taking Internet addiction
lightly.

INTRODUCTION

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to make you, the reader, alert and more aware of
the newest type of addiction, Internet addiction. Many people would call it
exaggeration to classify  spending a lot of time on the Internet as an addiction,
but since the subject is a fairly new  not everybody is taking it as serious as
they should be.

Growth of the Internet

I am sure that everybody knows what the Internet and used it at least a couple
of times  so there is no need for me to tell you what the Internet is. However,
the incredible growth of the size and technology of the Internet is a fact well
worth mentioning.

Ever since the Internet was commercially introduced to the public late in 1989
the number of the networks that form the Internet have been increasing
exponentially. As you can see in figure 1 in the United States there is a new
network connected to the Internet every 30 minutes.

Figure 1 Number of Networks connected (Source:
ftp://nic.merit.edu/statistics/nsfnet)

Not all these networks are commercial, some are educational some are for
organizations and some are simply networks that provide Internet services. All
these different kind of networks can be identified on the Internet by their
domain extension, or in other words the last three letters in the address -e.g.
http://www.arabia.com is a commercial site because of the .com- in figure 2 the
percentage of all four major domains is shown, and it  is obvious that the big
share goes to the commercial domains. It does not take a genius to figure out
that since the Internet attracted that much commercial interest that means that
more and more people are using the Internet, and even more are willing to spend
ti...

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