Internet addiction. Did you even know that Internet addiction was formally recognized? There is even a “Center for Internet Addiction,” founded by Dr. Kimberly Young! Kimberly Young is “an internationally known expert on Internet addiction” according to her bio at the Center for Internet Addiction Web site.

Well, now PhD candidate Jeffrey Parsons has done his doctoral thesis on whether online gamers tend to suffer from Internet addiction. In fact, for his definition of “Internet addiction,” he refers specifically to the work of Kimberly Young.

For his research project, entitled “An Examination of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games as Facilitators of Internet Addiction,” the Unversity of Iowa student looked at the habits of approximately 500 Internet gamers, male and female, adolescent and adult.

The findings of the Internet gamers and Internet addiction study are very interesting…

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