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| Cyber Society | People often go on-line – the place where they are making friends. For lots of people the Internet is some kind of a private night club or the place where you can find the friends you have always wanted. Besides, it is very comfortable as if you don’t have to go out and find real people and have an honest relationship. Actually, you can stay in your own chair and search endless activities. You can walk off and come right back. People will even miss you and ask you to come back. In case you embarrass yourself, or people rage, then you can just change your name, age and marital status and simply start again.
It doesn’t need much of courage to go into the Net. Once you are in, a user can go anyplace and see almost anything without social outcomes or anyone knowing. Consequently, the Internet is an encouraging unrestrained social and sexual behavior. There is clear effect on relationships when people become uninhibited, deceitful or mysterious in life or on the Net. There is much less truthfulness, honesty and responsibility on the Net than there is at work, in school or in a neighborhood.
Nowadays the Internet is a leading factor of almost one half of all marital or family problems. Sometimes relationships are breaking down when a men or woman creates a relationship in cyber society. High levels of Internet use can lead to social isolation, loss of real intimacy and depression.
Men, women and families are going into psychotherapy for relationship problems that are partly or totally produced compulsive internet use or virtual addictions. Women are filling for divorce claiming that their husbands are having sex on-line or looking at "pornography" for hours every day. Children stay up all night. Parents stop relating and spend less time raising their children.
The Internet is not only interfering into social and family time but it is also cutting into work. For some office workers the Internet is just part of the job. But up to 70% of employees who have high speed Internet access at work can spend up 1 hour a day drawn in non-work related activities. At least 6% of people at work use the Internet more than 6 hours per week for non-work related activities.
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