Is internet addiction real ?

WHAT IS INTERNET ADDICTION?
Internet Addiction - are essentially terms that have been applied to those that spend excessive amounts of time online at the expense of and to the detriment of other aspects of their lives. The obsessive behaviour takes the form of particular activities, and might include any or all of the following :
• Relationships: spending excessive amounts of time starting and maintaining online friendships
in chat rooms, which replace real-life friends and family.
• Money : compulsively gambling online, trading online, and partaking in online auctions.
• Information searching : compulsive web surfing or database searches.
• Gaming: obsessive computer game playing, including multi-user games.
• Sex : addiction to adult chatrooms, cyber sex or pornography on the Internet.
There has been an increasing amount of attention given to this phenomenon, and attempts to quantify the problem have produced some staggering statistics: for example, figures suggesting that as many as 6-10% of the 189 million US Internet users have a dependency on the Internet, and there are as many as 1 million German Internet addicts. There have also been cases recorded of addiction to texting on mobile phones. [© Childnet International 2006.]

While Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia terms internet addiction disorder (IAD), or more broadly Internet overuse, problematic computer use or pathological computer use is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life.

Psyciatrist, Dr Muhammad Muhsin Ahmad Zahari, deputy chief coordinator at University Malaya Centre of Addiction Sciences defined internet addiction as a maladaptive use of the internet that leads to social and functional impairment.

Internet addiction is on the rise in the world's largest Net market, and now Chinese doctors have officially defined it as an ailment.
Users who spend six hours or more per day online, and exhibit at least one symptom including difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress are classified as meeting the definition of addiction.
Being hooked on the Internet has been considered a problem in Chinese society as early as 2005, when the first clinic dedicated to Internet addiction opened in Beijing. It began accepting patients who exhibited dependency symptoms for those of substance abuse.
China also has "boot camps" designed to help addicts kick the habit by helping to change their routine.
About 10 percent of China's 253 million Internet users exhibit some form of addiction to the medium, and 70 percent of those people are young men, an official Xinhua News Agency report said.
So is internet addiction real ? Yes, I believed it is.

So to avoid this addiction why not get addicted to JESUS instead. Because only Jesus can fill any vacumn that you have in your life.