For the past few decades, the internet and social online games have been trapping people inside their houses in secluded rooms. Because most of these addicts are teenagers, there parents and family overreact and call in psychiatrists to help with the so called addiction. But there really is no true harmful addiction being taken place. Of course lights glow when certain parts of the brain are stimulated when doctors poke around to so called addicts, but its nothing compared to the harmful effects of drugs and alchol.
Some say that once addicted to the internet, your lives shut down, and eventually you dont participate in the real world and lose contact with friends. Its all bullshit. I have a friend who I have known for the past three years. He is, by a doctors definition, addicted to the internet. He goes online and plays WOW almost everyday and spends multiple hours with other video games and online social games. From reading this, you would assume he has no life. A picture could be drawn about this person, and it would probably portray a filthy, lazy person, in a secluded, dark room with no friends wasting his life. But damn you could not be more wrong. This person is an allstar athlete, in two sports, and a genius at school; taking several AP classes and exceeding in all of them. Sure you may assume I am lying, and I would tell you his name but I cannot without his consent, (although Economos I do believe you had him as a student last year). This proves that people who constantly play video games and online games are not subject to addiction. Its if you have the balls to get up and be motivated to do something. There are some addicts who would leave school early or skip it entirely to get a few more hours leveling up, but it all depends on the will of the man.
Internet Addiction should not be ruled as an "addiction" because what of the other far more addicting activities such as porn or sex. Both are highly attactive, and almost everyone does both. But that dosent mean we are going to take two or three days out of our week to do it. And a doctor should that the same area in the brain is stimulated when one does either task.
I believe that the only reason society makes such a huge deal about this is because they do not fully understand it yet. My father is a bit older than my fellow students, I believe he is sixty maybe. So in the 1950's, when he was born, he lived in a seculded land area of 112 acers of land in Maine. Our modern toys are t.v., phones, xbox and so on; his toys were knives, guns, and some wild animal to shoot. His most relatable toy was a 19 inch black and white television which he watched occasionly. Two observations can be stated from this. The first is that adults didn't have the same childhood as we had. We have social online games which is found peculiar and mysterious by some adults. They dont fully understand what we are going through, and what we can control.
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observatoin is that we dont have the experience nor the chance that our parents had. For Johns Creek, we live in the suburbs, a modern town which each house may have only a few acres of land to play on. I am lucky enough to have a dozen or so acres. I can play baseball, play with my dogs, and chop down trees. This real life experience is what keeps me off of my videogames. Without land, I probably would stay inside playing WOW.
Another notable thing is that I watched a Ted Talk Video about pills and ADD. Some, like myself, believe it isnt real. ADD was made to pocket more money for the medicine, ADD is just a lame excuse to not do well in school. But there are some who have serious cases which must be taken care of, but for the most part it isnt real. So why should we believe some doctors about internet addiction. If we believe them, in a few years time, they will be selling anti-internet addiction medicine; do we really want that.
The truth is the society we live in is not a good one, it is full of pussies who need to suck on their mommas tit until they turn 40 and their parents arent around anymore. They need to grow up and get off the games. Sure, take a break once in a while, relax and half fun with friends online, killing demons and assassinating people. Its fine to have fun, but damn have a limit. I am on the computer right now. I am on the internet writing blog, but I'm not on facebook, or youtube, or WOW. I have control. We dont need medicine to cure these so called addictions. What we need is for parents to get up, grab them by the collar, get their heads out of their asses, and pry their eyes open to the real world. Because getting stuck behind the virtual world wont last forever. One day reality will set in and take a giant crap on what is left of their life.
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