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| Types of Internet Addiction |  • Net-Gaming - Net-gaming usually includes different internet activities. Users may participate in online games or Multi-User Dungeon Games, become obsessed with e-auctions, visit virtual casinos, or do online shopping. This type of addiction can be especially expensive as these individuals may rack up charges on a parent’s charge card or internet bill.
• Cyber-Relational Addiction - Online relationships in chat rooms become more important than relationships with family and non-internet friends. In addition to spending time chatting online with these new acquaintances, long-distance charges may accumulate as the conversations begin to enter the real world. Concerns that the individual may attempt to meet an online acquaintance in person should be taken seriously as there is no way of knowing who someone met over the internet really is.
• Information Overload - The amount of news is available on the internet is usually unrestricted. Some individuals may become obsessed with tracking down certain types of information and organizing it. Surfing the web and conducting extensive searches of online data bases may become an all-consuming activity, reaching obsessive-compulsive levels.
• Computer Addiction - Computer games that can be played without access to the internet can also become addictive to someones. This may also happen with games played on such platforms as Play Station and Sega.
• Cybersexual Addiction - Pornography is accessible for everybody on the internet. While a variety of parental control software has been designed to limit the types of internet sites to which children can have access, many pornographic sites are designing ways around this software as quickly as the newest controls are introduced. A determined internet user may get access to pornographic websites despite the use of the most sophisticated parental control software.
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