guided essay: internet addiction?

The Internet has created a generation of addicts who have an intense need for new information, to communicate by e-mail, to chat with cyberfriends, to play games on line, to dowload music... In this essay I am going to...

You can comunicate all over the world.

You may improve your school reports by searching for information in the Net.

You may get some of the abilities you will need at the university or in your professional life.
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You may become socially isolated. It steals time from partners, friends, family... You are cut off from the world around

You can spend so much time looking for information which you will never find enough time to use it. You can waste your time on the chat or dowloading music

instead of studying.

It has bad effects on your eyes and your health. You live a sedentary life...

a. I would like to conclude by saying that, in my opinion, Internet addiction is not harmful if you are able to use it in a productive way....

b. My point is that it might be harmful to some people but not to others so one cannot generalise...In fact, I think we should be a lot more worried about TV addiction than about Internet addiction...

c. I have tried to examine the both sides of the issue and, in my opinion, there are more reasons to believe that Internet may be a harmful activity...

d. ...