A REVIEW ON THE ADDICTION TO THE INTERNET AND THE ONLINE GAMES

Abstract

As the use of computers and the Internet becomes a feature of daily life, the potential for overuse is developed, which can lead to addiction. Internet addiction research has shown users can become addicted to it. Internet addiction shares some of the detrimental characteristics of drug addiction and has been shown to lead to outcomes such as school failure, family difficulties and relationship issues. In this online world offline games rarely finds a place and so there is the trend of the online gaming but too much play on the online game leads to the addiction to the games and which ultimately affects the other areas of the user like for the students it affects the study and concentration of the students and their mental health and for the working professionals it affects their concentration on the work and thus producing undesirable results