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Nov 14, Medicine & Health/Psychology & Psychiatry Experts have questioned whether Internet addiction constitutes a psychological disorder and an Arlington, Va., group may add it to its diagnostic manual. Members of the American Psychiatric Association have said the organization may include Internet addiction in its next guidebook, while experts debate whether the issue constitutes a psychological problem, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

An article about internet addiction in South Korea.

Some info about how terrorists are using the Internet to spread propaganda and encourage the growth of their organizations.

Mental Health, Personality, and Parental Rearing Styles of Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder.

Good website to find articles.

This article gives statistics and examples on how the internet changes our lives.

A little info on how illegal internet dowloading decreases the sale of cd's.

This article tells you about how the interent is changing our lives and how it matters.

This TED talks video contradicts the current view most people hold of intimacy over the web.

How the internet influences education

Internet usage leads to more diversity

"Bupropion Sustained Release Treatment Decreases Craving for Video Games and Cue-Induced Brain Activity in Patients With Internet Video Game Addiction"

Article about son's addiction, father says "He displayed the characteristics of a heroin addict"

So what does this have to do with the psychology of cyberspace? There are two basic ways the internet tends to create division in one's life and identity. First, people tend to separate their online lives from their offline lives. You may have online companions, groups, and activities that are quite distinct from those you have in the face-to-face world.

Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people's electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world. Make that 9.9 billion and change.

Psychological research on Twitter reveals who tweets, how much, what they talk about and why. There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of US internet users now say they use Twitter or a similar service to share updates about themselves-double the figure from the previous year (Pew, 2009).

If you want to stay inconspicuous while online, here are some products, services, and best practices to put to use. CHECK YOUR STEALTH Put your PC through an Internet anonymity test to see just how stealthy it really is. Whenever you connect to Web sites, you're basically telling them your IP address—if nothing else.

A paper on on-line and off-line identity

In a sweeping victory for free speech rights in cyberspace, the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act in Reno v. ACLU in June 1997. The Court granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to the Internet, and cyber-activists are still dancing in the streets.