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Internet addiction reached its peak at this generation, people, kids, teenagers, adults even old people are living in a virtual world. They have virtual pets, virtual friends also they have virtual avatars of themselves. Some of them spend lots of real money on shopping in a virtual environment for virtual products like clothes for the virtual avatar. This essay will discuss the problems and recommendations for this type of addiction.

There are several major problems that the Internet addiction causes. One of these problems is that people are losing their identities and replacing them with a totally different ones out of their imagination by creating new identities that reflect their wishes and how they wish to look in reality. Due to that people get emotionality involved and they could get really disappointed sometimes or get fraud. As people depend on this virtual environments, it opens many chances to the hackers and the web criminals to get use of it. Furthermore, the Internet addiction encourages people when they get mad or upset of someone to hurt them and destroy their life.

It's a serious problem and it needs to be solved dramatically on different levels. Firstly, the governments should put a strict system to protect the citizens and to control this new world wide environment. For example, they should punish the web criminal harshly. Moreover, governments should advertise and aware their civilians about it. Also, the addict himself should realise and confess that he has a problem and his family should support him.

To sum up, Internet addiction is a highly important problem these days. Also, it's affecting people's life deeply. People should be aware of the consequences of being addicts to the Internet.