Response To Media Addiction Article

              To me if parents prefer to take care of a virtual child than their own then there is something going on in the world. If they didn’t want the kid in the first place than the mother could have had an abortion or gave it up for adoption to a family that will actually feed and care for the baby. The article says that the Korean couple lost their will to live after losing their jobs and it got me thinking, why go waste your life on a game instead of doing something to get back on track? The couple couldn’t have been feeling that bad if they were able to raise a virtual child online. Clearly the internet is used today by many as an escape from their problems in the real world. The mother who was killed by her son for telling him that he played too many games is another example of how the internet is starting to take over the lives of people. The Korean man just killed her and went back to his gaming in an internet café as if nothing happened. The man who died from cardiac arrest for playing almost 50 hours non-stop was also in an internet café. He probably ate little to nothing as to not waste any game play time. There should be some kind of regulation on the amount of hours you could stay in a café or else many others take advantage of the free internet. This internet addiction should be taken seriously and should probably receive the same attention as a drug addiction. The fact that people today are getting addicted to certain media is a depressing thought. I have never understood how people could get so distracted and addicted by a video game. Mostly everything is run by computers and you could find anything on the internet so as technology advances more the rate of this addiction will eventually increase and should start being dealt with as of now. As with any addiction, being online 24-7 can not only cause health problems but also problems with the family and friends. According to the article many internet addicts are more likely to get depressed than non addicts. This correlation is proof that the amount of technology used today should be decrease and more self control should be by us.