You have mail! The AOL account pops up an envelope on the bottom left of the screen. The user vigorously scurries their hand to the mouse, because they know that they must check their e-mail every half hour to be kept up to date. This is a typical life for someone with an Internet addiction. Internet addictions have been storming America's colleges faster than yoyos did in the 1970's. To go to college in America, …showed first 75 words of 582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 582 total…consciousness" (http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-95-96/computer-addiction/what.html) Dr. Schaffer uses an interesting word in his quote, which is "reality". Many people feel the need to escape their miserable lives, and shift to one that is a stable one they can fully trust. Obviously people with these addictions need some sort of help recognizing their problem, and hopefully they gain the strength to move to other addictions like homework and studying.