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| Cyberspace Addiction |  Cyberspace Addiction is an addiction to virtual experience created through computer engineering. Within this wide category, there may be subtypes with particular differences.
A teenager who hooks he classes playing next level of Donkey Kong may be a very different person than the middle aged housewife who spends about $500 a month in the chat rooms - who in turn may be very different from the businessman who can't release himself from his finance programs and continuous internet access to stock quotes.
Some cyberspace addictions are game and competition oriented, some fulfill more social needs and some simply may be an extension of workaholicism.
Then again, these differences may be superficial. Nowadays the mass media pay much attention to internet addictions and cyberspace and may simply reflect the fact that this is a new and hot topic. It may also show some anxiety among people who really don't know what the internet is, even though everybody is talking about it. The lack of knowledge tends to breed fear and the need to devalue.
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