http://www.salon.com/2012/08/17/our_telling_online_habits_salpart/
On Friday, August 17th, Adrian F. Ward and Piercarlo Valcarlo wrote about the effects that the internet have on people. They starts off by asking numerous of what appears to be, random questions. Then they explain how they connect and have only one answer, that being, the internet is a bad influence in many people's life. They state that the time spent on the computer, isolates people, make them addicted to blog and certain sites and end up consuming all their social life. The majority of the people that are getting a negative outcome of the internet are teens, most teens spend hours and even days locked to a screen, watching movies and looking at different sites. The worst and most common effect internet can have on people is depression. 80% of the population that has depression count internet as huge part of it.
The authors wrote this article to make people aware of the enormous effect internet can have on people. They are not trying to persuade people but to make them acknowledge that it is proven, through research that obsession to media devices can cause depression.
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