Internet addicts are the People Stress?

Not just to find the latest news, reading books, paying electricity bills, to vent with friends in other parts of the world can now easily be done using the internet facility.

It was, our lives are now not be separated from the internet. In fact, waking up the first time ever done is to open the Internet to update the status on social networking sites.

However, watch out when your time surfing in cyberspace is already entered in the zone of addiction. New study shows that 1.2 percent of people who are addicted to the Internet tend to experience depression. This conclusion is generated based on a survey conducted online of 1310 Internet users.

Respondents in the survey aged 16-51 years. They questioned the duration of internet use and purpose. The respondents were also given a series of questions to determine whether they suffered from depression.

Researchers found that a number of respondents have a high urge to surf up to shift the social life in the real world. They prefer to communicate through social networking sites or chat rooms. A total of 1.2 per cent of respondents considered the Internet addict. They interact more in social networking sites, gambling or pornographic sites.

Chief researcher Dr Catriona Morrison, said that in this modern world of the Internet holds a very important role, but coupled with the dark side. The Internet addicts are more prone depression than ordinary Internet users.

"Many Internet users are more easily take care of bills, reply to e-mail, or shopping. However, they also claimed to be difficult to limit time to use the Internet to interfere with real life," he explained.

Morrison said, is not known whether excessive Internet use causes depression, or they are depressed people who drown themselves in cyberspace.

DrVaugn Bell from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London said, by definition, people who "Internet addiction" was emotionally depressed. Thus, he argues that this result is not surprising.