Web Dating Obsession

Intensive expansion of Internet technologies has lead to another kind of disease – Internet addiction, and the addiction to virtual communication as its type. Many experts consider it as serious as alcoholism, smoking or gambling. Computer technologies let the people exposed to different kinds of addiction realize them in the virtual world.

There exist 5 alarm signals of your virtual communication addiction:

1. You spend too much time communicating online. Innocent exchange of messages with your virtual friends takes hours and You can't stop.

2. You build your everyday schedule according to the Internet visits. You may change the hours of sleep or cancel your plans for weekend. You prefer communicating on the web to meeting with people in real life.

3. It is hard for You to concentrate upon your work or family.

4. Depression. Internet communication is one of the most euphoric occupations. You feel depressed when You can't communicate with virtual abstract interlocutors for a long time.

5. Your emotional state depends upon Internet communication.

The high-risk group mostly includes introverts. These are people who have difficulties with interpersonal attitudes. Internet communication is a way out for them as it is realized distantly. They usually have different inferiority complexes that they transfer into the virtual world. Besides such people are more suggestible.

Virtual communication should be an alternative to the real one but not a substitution. If you notice that any of your friends is exposed to Internet addiction, try to return him to the reality by switching his interests to another activity.