teens and Internet addiction Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a theorized disorder originally made as a satirical hoax by Ivan Goldberg‚ M.D.‚ in 1995. He took pathological gambling as diagnosed by the DSM-IV as his model for the spoofed description. Although IAD was meant to be a hoax‚ it is promoted as a real condition by some supporters. Supporters often divide IAD into subtypes by activity‚ such as pornography‚ overwhelming and immoderate gaming‚ inappropriate involvement in online social
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The internet is one of the latest and most popular technologies. It is a computer system which allows millions of computer users around the world to exchange information. Not surprisingly‚ it has brought about a huge change in our lifestyles. Due to many reasons‚ some people state that the internet does more harm than good. However to me it does more good than harm. Firstly‚ the internet has made a lot of information available to many people in the world in just a split second. For example
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Many years ago a network was born having several computers connected and now‚ that same network has millions of computers connected at all times‚ it’s called the Internet. This paper will explain the evolution and growth of the Internet. It’s like a plague growing across the world‚ signs of its growth are seen everywhere. The Internet was started as an experiment to test networks to try and develop a network that could survive a nuclear attack. While the net has never needed to survive a nuclear
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The usage of internet is such a drastic improvement and the number of users day by day increasing. Even children in school education are very much familiar about the internet and its usage. when computer are introduced‚ people are against it‚since it reduces the manpower . But now all the organizations are computerized. The same situation is going on for internet usage today. Everywhere Internet. Without internet‚ the communication will be very difficult. The following are few of the usage
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WITHOUT THE INTERNET‚ THE WORLD WOULD NOT FUNCTION Internet was one of the greatest inventions in the nineteenth century‚ it has progressed since then to meet our needs and like every other invention the internet has its benefits and flaws. The World Wide Web has made a difference to too many people all over the world‚ that if the internet was abolished the world would go on a downward spiral. This essay shall elaborate on the positive outcomes such as how the communication gap has been filled
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Strategy and The Internet Michael E. Porter Harvard Business Review In this article‚ the author (Michael E. Porter)‚ explains his opinion on the use of the internet by organisations. He points out that both dot-coms and established companies have both‚ by way of competition‚ violated the core precept of strategy in businesses. Porter brings out the fact that companies focussed more on attracting more customers‚ via discounted channels‚ discounting and advertising‚ rather than having profit in
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In the history of mankind‚ the Internet is the greatest development in the domain of communication industry. Internet has tremendous potential and a lot to offer in terms of services. Internet is a source of information. There is a huge amount of information available on the Internet for just about every subject known to man‚ for example from government law and services‚ market information‚ new ideas and technical support. The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers
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How Has the Internet Changed the Way We Do Creative Research and Scholarship? Ladies and Gentlemen‚ I have come here today to talk to you about the effects of the internet on the education of your children. Although most of you probably see the internet as having a negative impact on today’s youth‚ I will discuss both the positive and the negative attributes of the internet. I assure you that the motive of this speech is not to convince you or in any way persuade you to think differently‚ but simply
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April 2012 Disadvantages of the Internet The internet has been the most phenomenal introduction in the world of communication in history. While with every single latest technology‚ the internet has its own disadvantages. Today the internet has become the most influential communication device for people around the globe. Some of the disadvantages of the internet are social disconnect‚ the security of children using the web‚ spamming and privacy. The internet has the possibility to imply damage
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Does the Internet Today Brings Good or Harm? The Internet is a network connecting computers across the world. “It has its origins in military and academic projects dating back to the 1960s‚ but began to be more widely available from the end of the 1980s. The creation of the World Wide Web (1989) and web browsers (early 1990s) gave ordinary people easy ways of getting around the Internet.” Over the past fifteen years‚ millions of different websites have been set up‚ giving people the chance to shop
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