Internet Addiction and its Effects on People

Academic Research and
Writing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Internet addiction and its effects on people.................................................................................1
Reflection (500)...........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Academic research can be defined as systematic investigation into a problem where
people wants to identify facts and all informations related to the topic and selecting sources or
articles (Pyrczak and Tcherni-Buzzeo, 2018). This present study is going to analyse articles
related to internet addiction and its effects on people as how it affects their mental and physical
health. This study shows several negative effects of internet addiction specially on students as it
is affecting their mental health and career development opportunities because they spent their a
lot of time in social media and internet. They give less focus on their studies and academic which
sometimes make them depressed.
Internet addiction and its effects on people
It is stated that internet has made all works easier as organizations and people are making
effective use of internet in order to perform their works. It is being used in all fields like
education, organizations, industries, hospitals and others. Uses of internet to some extent and in
an effective manner can have several positive impacts but when it becomes addiction than it has
several negative effects on mental and physical health of people. In this context, (Internet
Addiction and its Effects on Mental Health, 2019) said that addiction of internet is a harmful
technology as it is affecting students to the great extent. There are several students who spend
their lot of time in internet and on social media. They check their mobile phones in every ten
minutes and this addiction is affecting their study and career development. It is also reported that
as compare to ancient students, students of these generation do not have deep knowledge of any
field as they only study for getting passing grades. It also affects their mental health as they face
problems in sleeping and this problem make them depressed. So, it can be said that excessive use
of internet by university students leads to depression, anxiety, headache, problems of back ache
and other mental and physical health problems. Eventually it affects their academic performance
(Nath, Naskar and Victor, 2016).
In addition, (Understanding Internet Addiction, 2019) stated that internet addiction is
more in males as compare to females. As compare to females, males of boys have willingness
and desire to use Smartphone, gaming and others and this makes them internet addiction.
Gaming is one of the main elements which make students and boys internet addiction and
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