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Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of Internet Addiction— And a Winning Strategy for Recovery
In Caught in the Net, Kimberly Young shares the results of her three-year study of Internet abuse. Often using the words of the Internet addicts themselves, she presents the stories of dozens of lives that were shattered by an overwhelming compulsion to surf the Net, play MUD games, or chat with distant and invisible neighbors in the timeless limbo of cyberspace. For Inter...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
February 27th 1998
by John Wiley & Sons
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As a child of its time this book is quite seriously out of date but nevertheless holds a certain status as it quite literally started a serious discussion about problematic internet use. Today, internet use has quite literally skyrocketed and peoples use of the internet has changed dramatically with the advent of MMOs and social networking sites both of which are not covered by this book. However, Young had a point when she published this book and that point remains quite valid today; some peo...more
James
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Okay, although dated; some of it has a bit of an over-the-top "Reefer Madness" feel to it, although the problem addressed is legitimate and serious, and the lack of footnotes hurts it. I'm looking forward to the updated edition to see what new ground will be covered.
Possibly in 1998 it had a point, however slight, but now it's seriously out of date and out of touch with reality.
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