For many years technology has grown tremendously. From flip phones, to slides, and to touch. Our society has incorporated the uses of technology into our daily lives. Internet is now a source of our communication and education. The internet is what connects all of our communication. It benefits us in so many ways, but what are the psychological effects on internet usage toward our children and young adults, is it changing our atmosphere? A question I urge is do people with internet addiction need medical aid? In this essay there will be sources determining our psychological behaviors and how it affects us as internet users.
To begin, L.D Rosen the main contributor for the research of “Is Facebook creating ‘iDisorders’?” published in 2013 argues that the greater use of the internet increases signs of loneliness and depression (1243). Susan Greenfield, a Neuroscientist of Oxford University explains, "It is making us dependent, shifting us from real world to the virtual." People need pause this effect that is beginning to change our children's lives - which they should experience the life we've all seen, before approaching toward this outstanding technology (4.1). With technology increasingly enhancing it has made us more dependent on it. That which makes us independent as an individual. Through this situation some may be affected because they have lost physical communication of having someone actually being there. People have become one with their machines, staring at a digital screen for at least eight hours (Dokoupil 27), and more intense Facebook use predicted increased loneliness (Rosen 1244). Did humans lose their communicative bonds? Well “Tweets. Texts. Email. Posts. Is the Onslaught making us Crazy?” is an article written by Tony Dokoupil issued in 2012 and published by Newsweek. The author says, “The Internet ‘leads to a behavior that people are conscious is not in their best interest and leaves them anxious and does make them act compulsively’” (27)....