“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”

“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”

“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”

“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my‘real-life’friends.”

Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug junk. People lose control of the time they spend on the Internet.

For example， one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried， and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.

Studies show that about 6% to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.

Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms:

●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.

●You can’t wait for your next online time.

●You plan to spend a short time online， but then you spend several hours.

●You go out with your friends less and less.

譯文：

不要上網(wǎng)成癮

“ 早晨我有時3點鐘或者4 點鐘起床，上網(wǎng)沖浪。”

“ 我經(jīng)常檢查我的電子郵件，一天40 次?！?/p>

“ 在網(wǎng)上我常常一次就要耗費3個多小時?！?/p>

“ 我在聊天室里花費的時間要多于我與‘現(xiàn)實生活’中的朋友呆在一起的時間?！?/p>

你認識這樣的一些人嗎？他們是被稱之為“有因特網(wǎng)癮”的新上癮族的一部分。因特網(wǎng)癮君子每周在線上要花費至少30 到40 個小時。使用因特網(wǎng)就像吸毒一樣可能上癮。人們無法控制他們在因特網(wǎng)上所花費的時間。

例如，一個大學生失蹤幾天。他的朋友為他擔心，給警察打電話。警察在計算機實驗室里找到這位學生：他在網(wǎng)上沖浪好幾天了。

研究顯示，大約6%到10%的因特網(wǎng)用戶上癮。因此人們擔心青少年，因為因特網(wǎng)正在改變一些孩子玩的領域。他們在計算機空間里花費的時間，要遠遠多于他們在現(xiàn)實生活中與朋友和家人在一起的時間。

“上網(wǎng)沖浪”對你來說是愛好還是有癮？ 如果你有這些癥狀，你可能就有問題了：

●你因為喜歡在因特網(wǎng)上花費數(shù)小時，而不去參加重要的家庭活動或者不做功課。

●對于下次上網(wǎng)，你迫不及待。

●你原計劃在線上玩一會兒，結果卻花費了幾個小時。

●你與朋友出去越來越少。

Questions：

1. Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? How do you know?

2. What should you do if you addict to the Internet?