Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD)

AbstractThe term “Internet Addiction Disorder”, recognizes the dependence of the “network” as a pathology, an obsessive / compulsive disorder, which drives a person to overuse of this technology and includes a wide variety of behaviors and problems with impulse control. You can be addicted to a substance, or by activity, such as the use of new means of information and communication. In the last decades, was recorded an exponential increase of dependence of the network; difficult to eliminate because it is linked to the pursuit of pleasure, of happiness. However, there are distinctive elements that allow experts to identify risk behaviors Internet addiction. In this intention, according to the Center for Online Addiction American, there are 5specific types of Internet addiction: 1.Addictive cyber – sex (cybersex), 2.Cyber addiction - relational (virtual relations), 3.Addiction to Gaming Net (virtual games or role), 4.Addictive of the Web or information overload (obsessive search for information),5.Addictive of computers or computer addiction. With this assumption, enable that the Internet is used in a positive way by young people but also by adults, it is necessary that you put in place a primary prevention: assure that children have a sure and intelligent web surfing; To awaken family to new educational needs of childhood and of teen; to involve school and society to educate the responsible use of new technologies. Bearing in mind that the real socialization should never be totally replaced by the virtual one