so it can be anyone that tries to hide their addiction by say that they only go on when it is necessary for them to go online. The next form of Internet addiction is the I only use it when I have to, these people make up convenient excuses to go online, to try to hide their addiction from others. Finally the last form of addiction is the Internet Junkie. This user is unlike the addicts in the previous groups. This user neither sneaks online, nor makes excuses to being online. Rather, this user puts their life on hold while engrossed with their computer usage (netaddcition.com). In analyzing the Internet and its offerings, it can be said that is provides a lot of advantages to go along with its disadvantages. With proper usage, and control one can enjoy the convenience that it brings to our lives. Convenience such as online shopping, and chatting to long distance friends, and relatives without the long distance charges. Also it provides us with information at our fingertips with out having to go to a library to search for it. Although, without proper usage of the Internet a backfire of Internet Addiction Disorder, crime, and malicious practices may arise. As the Internet continues to grow, and evolve, so will we as users developing whatever the Internet shapes us to be. The complete impact of the internet is difficult to assess, because it is still changing, but in fact, one of the things that may be lost in the unending stories about the internet, Internet companies and internet users, is that this is really a revolution- but like must truly major changes, it is a revolution measured in decades, not weeks and months, and no one, including the most direct participants, really knows how it will change our lives (Reynolds, 273)....
