Internet addiction isn't real.
NBC News' Rock Center delivered a news segment only pertaining to a few individuals who have suffered this problem. Internet addiction, as the NBC News anchor asserts, is actually real. However, her justification is not acceptable. She cites a few individuals who have suffered through this, but a handful of people with "internet addiction" does not justify this to be admitted as a medical condition.
The act of accusing the internet for addiction is ludicrous. Society has underwent a transformation where the internet is now our most important communication medium. This communication medium now serves us in unimaginable ways. Work is now shifted towards the internet and emails, entertainment is now being shown on the internet, families can communicate in closer ways with the internet. This is merely just a change in medium that the press decides to overhype about as an addiction. Just because more people decide to spend time with their internet connected devices to finish work does not justify them as "addicted."
NBC also aired a few clips of interviews of families who have suffered through a "victim" of internet addiction. However, this segments are not convincing at all. The word addiction goes way too far for these interviews to support. These unlucky individuals are just obsessed with the internet, not addicted. NBC also cited a few neural studies with sections of the brain, but the study itself is incompetent to show any credible results. NBC cites this as a "small study" that compares brain sections with "internet addicted" individuals and everyday people. First, this study was a small study which obviously did not include a majority of people to be credible. Second, this study was the only study NBC cited; this shows that either this study was the only one of its kind, or they are much more competing studies which proves internet addiction is a hoax.
Though NBC, I believe, did not air this segment to change opinions, they have certainly not provided a convincing argument for internet addiction.
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