Programs for preventing internet Addiction

Programs for Preventing

Internet addiction

XKeeper

As internet and smartphone developed,

it surely give us comfortance to us.

However, there must be exist side effects too.

When people use internet and smartphone too often,

they cannot control their usage.

And especially, children tend to expose naturally to the harmful site and  harmful videos.

This program will help these problem!

Xkeeper is protective program from harmful site.

It can prevent from harmful things, and also help not to get an internet addiction.

This controls the time of using smartphone and internet.

It shut out harmful videos and apps.

Another function of this program is that it can inquire where their children are.

It can prevent children from dangerous situation!

MOMI

MOMI is program which prevent

child's long time use of computer and game addiction.

Parents can set the time of using PC and shut out site of game,porno.

Parents can remote control their children's PC, so it is easy to make them quit the internet game even they are far away.

Many people anticipate that it helps to make child's healthy habits of using PC.

Comparison with other addictions

" 4 addictions in Korea"

Among one-eight of Korean is addicted in one of the "4 addictions"

What is the "4 Addiction"?

Alcohol addiction, Drug addiction, Gambling addiction, Internet addiction

All of these addictions are threatening our national competitiveness

-Alcohol addiction

Addict scale: 15500000000 addicts

social cost(which means loss from this addiction): 23400000000000 won

-Drug addiction

Addict scale: 10000000 addicts

social cost: 2500000000000 won

-Gambling addiction

Addict scale: 2200000000 addicts

social cost: 78200000000000 won

Internet addiction 

Addict scale: 23300000000 addicts

social cost: 54000000000000 won

Comparing with them, Internet addiction's addict scale is the most high among them.

And Internet addiction's addict range is the most various among them.

 It comprises from 3 ages old to old ages. 

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Web Surfing Addiction

 

Obtrusive Web Surfing Addiction

It refers addiction that

compulsive behavior regarding excessive web surfing and database searches. 

Symptom of Web surfing addiction

*reducing work productivity

it make addicts unable to comfortably leave the computer to do other activities.

This addicted person will sit in front of the computer for hours searching website after website looking for nothing in particular.

The person has trouble completing everyday tasks because the Internet takes up so much of their time.

* Arouse uneasyness

 When the person does leave the computer,

he feels anxious, depressed.

 Then get back to it as soon as he can.

Smartphone Addiction

Smartphone Addiction

In Korea, 60 % of people have smart phone or tablet PC.

It increase by  8 times comparing with last year 

that people use smart phones.

As ICT technology become developed,  wireless Internet become enabled. So many people use it regardless of place.

However people use it too much, it create "Smartphone Addiction."

Symptoms of Smartphone Addiction

 

• Spending a lot of time on watching and touching the smartphone
• using smartphone in the bathroom, when you go to bed, or anywhere you go.
• feeling a brief moment of panic when it is misplaced
• feeling uneasyness when battery charge is not full
• Constantly using phone rather than communicate and talk with other directly.

 

Problems of Smartphone Addiction

*Physical

• .   Carpal tunnel syndoms is caused by repetitive motion disorders.
• Asthenopia is common when looking at a screen for a long period of time. It indirectly affects someone through fatigue and headaches.
• Becuase of radio frequency, it  may potentially cause certain types of cancers and health problems. It might be cause brain tumors.

*psychological

It can cause cell-phone dependence symptoms.

User feel greater comfort when able to use the phone,

compulsion to spend more time on the phone than desired,

and emotional attachment to the phone.

Cyber Sexual Addiction

 

 

Cyber Sexual Addiction

  

What is Cyber sex addiction?

It refers that compulsive use of Internet pornography, adult chat rooms, or adult fantasy role-play sites impacting negatively on real-life intimate relationships.

- Categories of sybersex

• Online Porn - this includes pictures, audio, video and text.
• Real Time Interactions - this includes "talking" to people about sexual topics in internet chat rooms, and exchanging images and files, such as audio and video.
• Multi-Media Software - this includes x-rated movies, sexual games, online erotic media, and CD-ROMs with sound and video clips.

- Problems of sybersex 

Generally, viewing pornography is accepted naturally

to engage in sexual fantasies impossible in real life.

sybersex has easy access to everywhere.

It is from magazine ads to television, and even through our home computers.

. It can be done in private without anyone knowing who or where you are.

Cybersex allows you to be anyone you want to be without the embarrassment of someone you know personally finding out your deepest fantasies.

However, when we addict to syber sexual addiction, it can affect our

real-life relationships, career, and emotinal health.

There are research findings that  a teenager who see porno a lot,

there are more higher possibilites to commit sexual crimes.

If teenager connect to porno many times, they demand compulsive sexual action a lot. And even they commit sexual offense to anyone.

Sexual streotyping which is made in teenager continue to develop to the adulthood.

And later, it might be destroy healthy marriage life.

Because sybersex addicts are fascinated in only their sexual fantasy.

Not caring their affinity, and communication during sex,

they only care their sexual pleasure from sex.

Case of online shopping addiction

As online shoppingmall market become larger and larger, there are also side effect occurs.

According to the survey in Korea, 7.1 % of responder said " I am online shopping addict."

it becomes serious problem when consumer can not moderate their consumption.

Case of  online shopping addiction

Online Shopping cause financial difficulties.

Baek Bo-ram ,who is the representive online shopping mall CEO, told about

online shopping addiction.

She constantly bought something and finally she was uneasy that she doesn't have money.

So she couldn't buy what she want to get.

Then she created credit line to buy clothes, and shoes etc.

Finally, she got debt. This is because her consuming continued and there were no earning she had.

In talk show, she warned that online shopping addict is dangerous.

This is another example of online shopping addiction case.

Famous singer in Korea, Seo In- young confessed that she addicted to online shopping seriously.

She buy a items everyday in the internet. Even though she has the item, but she buy it again.Once she has money, she always buy something in online and off-line.

50 % of her earnings are consumed by internet shopping, so she has financial difficulties.

So there are many unnecessary clothes, shoes, cosmetics.

She left it in the corner of the room, and even she does not open the new item.

She told that she tries to solve this addiction, and now her parents manage her earning not to buy something.

Online shopping addiction

Online shopping Addiction

As internet developed very much, internet shopping markets are also developed a lot.

Comparing with traditional markets, 

Internet shopping malls are not restricted in time or space .

Consumers can buy things that are in Korea rapidly with one click , so it is very convenient to people.  

Symptomps of Internet shopping addiction

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  You spend more time than you should shopping online.
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  You promise to stop ordering so much online, but are unable to resist.
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  Your frequent purchases and spending causes financial problems and relationship troubles.
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  When you are not shopping online, you are planning your next online shopping spree.
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  Internet shopping has a negative impact on other parts of your life - work, friendships, finances, etc.

Causes of internet shopping addiction

 

This video explains well about what cause internet shopping addiction.

 

Cyber relationship addiction



Cyber Relationship Addiction

It refers phenomenon that

people addict to social networking, chat rooms or messaging on online

Most of cyber relationship addicts like interaction between other people not things that doing alone.

For example, they like doing network game, exchanging mail and massaging.

The way to they addictied in this

They make many new friends in online and develop new interpersonal relationship.

So they make "alter ago" in online space.

 Although one person is timid student in reality, but constrastly, he can be gangster in online.

Internet space can gives users new chance to live different and new life.

So people determine their own ID, they can get new identity. So they lived as that "ID".

They chat with some other people and exchange their emotion each other.

  

 In online space, people doesn't neet to be burden their responsibilities in real life.

So they can open their heart to first met people.

It become not just virtual relationship anymore. It is new interpersonal relationship, and new life.

In this way, people tend to be addicted to the new life in online.

 

Side effects of this 


They are totally absorbed in cyberspace, and their chatting time becomes longer and longer.

It interfers their real life and destroys routine schedule.  

To them, online friends become more important than real-life relationships with family and friends.

They could get physical problem like lack of sleep, and backage.

Moreover, they confuse real life and cyber life so they can offense a crime.

It is known that woman is more addicted to internet relationship than man. Man tend to be more addicted to network games.

Case of Internet game addiction

Case of Internet game addiction

There are some cases that related to negative sides of internet game addiction.

1. They even killed or Killed themselves

In south Korea, Internet game addiction among students is very serious now.

For example, Kwang-Gu in South Korea, one middle school student killed his younger brother. 

The reason why he did this is he confused reality and circumstances in game. 

Internet games contain many violent element. He kept playing this violent game constantly.

So he could not tell virtual world and imaginary world.

He stabbed his younger brother for 4 times.

In Suwon, husband and wife neglect their baby because of internet game.

And what was more the baby was dead because parents didn't get food to baby.

Many people surprised that they have imaginary daughter in Internet game.

2. Violence

One middle school student killed himself because he suffered bullying from children.

And Internet game was major reason of his death.

According to suicide notes, offenders constantly demand him to buy expensive online game item.

To get these items, they did water torture, exploitation of money and valuables to him.

He could not endure this violence, he decided to suicide. 

Like these cases, internet game enhance possibilities of committing crimes.

Internet game addiction

 

What is

"Internet Game Addiction"?

 Internet Game Addiction is a form of Psychological addiction. 

; Compulsive use of computer.
  Internet game gives negative physical and psychological effects 

to internet game addicts.

 Effects of internet game addiction

•   Physical effect

First of all, there are eye problems.

Addicts concentrate on the screen by long hours and focus on the screen for many hours without rest . This  screen is constantly  releasing radiation. So it causes the problems of short-sight and dry eye.

Internet addicts  tend to always sit in front of the screen and hardly spare time to have exercises. Addicts may suffer  symptoms of cramps on their hands, fingers or feet. 
Also, It increase probability of sickness such as heart attack.  

   

 

• Psychological effect

Internet game addiction may cause violent psychological effect.

It leads addicts to commit crimes and serious problems.

Online game contains many violent elements, so it gives negative effect on people.

 

There are also problem of  lack of communication skills. 

Addicts always focusing on playing game, so they seldomly communicate with others emotionally. 

It interfere their social relationships a lot.