Intro: Online Gaming Addictions

Online Gaming Addiction – Hurting you and me

The internet could be hailed as one of the most influential and effecting programs that the world has ever been exposed to. It has helped hundreds of millions of people to connect with each other. It has provided ways of sending information instantly, allowing for technology and sciences to advance rapidly because of the instant communication. It has helped people gain access to trillions upon trillions amounts of information. It has provided ways for people, who would not have been able to do so otherwise, to go to school and learn. It has opened up the opportunity to increase the economic status of people everywhere. It has also provided more jobs which employs more people and more people employed produces a better economy. It has even provided means of entertainment ranging from videos and movies to games to chat rooms to blogs and forums. But along with this great mount of good that the internet has provided, it has also provided a great deal of heart ache and misery.
Like most anything else, the internet can be abused and cause a catastrophic destruction. It can ruin one person’s life, it can tear apart families, and it can destroy a nation because of what we can do with it. Viruses, illegal down-loadings, fraud, identity theft, pornography, sexual abuse, and more have risen as a result of the internet. And just like most anything else, it can also become addictive. Because of the wide range of uses that the internet provides there is a wide range of factors that influence becoming addicted, and there is a wide range of aspects to become addicted to – chat rooms, online shopping, Facebook and Myspace, email, internet surfing, pornography. Of all of the internet addictions, addictions to online gaming or MMORPGs (massive multiplayer online role playing games) caused by excessive play time of can deteriorate family and social relationships.