The words addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder; the need to do something; describe the problem some people have with technology. The obsession is the thought of going and getting on the computer for 14 hours a day, the compulsion is to sit and turn on the computer.

The dependency of addiction is often described as using something more often than you intend to, spending a great deal of time using it, giving up important social, family, or occupational activities to use it, and thinking about reducing your use or making repeated unsuccessful attempts to cut back on the amount of time being spent using a certain technology such as the internet. These are signs of being dependent upon technology in a person’s life.

For now, it's highly unlikely that technological dependencies will be considered a serious problem since for years; alcoholics were looked upon as individuals needing nothing more than to learn to control their behavior. Now experts agree that alcoholism is a disease requiring long-term treatment and in spite of some drug laws in this country, it would seem that drug addicts, as a majority, are still looked upon as criminals in need of punishment, instead of human beings in need of help. Is it still to early to tell where the technology addict fits into this picture? So far, no one on record has engaged in criminal activity, later claiming that they had been under the influence of technology and no one probably ever will in our lifetime but technology addiction is a serious problem none the less.

Working, playing, chatting, surfing on the computer and the internet has definitely become obsessive with quite a few people. Many people wonder whether there is a saturation point to this problem. Does this type of behavior qualify as a true addiction? Significant information is given identifying the real behaviors of internet addiction, such as false realities, isolation, loss of social skills and obsessive thinking; this makes it sound pretty much like an addiction does it not? These p

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