Internet addiction residential clinics are expensive. They do not know how to properly treat internet addition.

Internet addiction disorder is not caused by hard wired ethernet. The exception is internet gaming addiction. Internet addiction disorder is caused by the adverse effects of wi-fi and cellular data. The neuroimaging findings in the above referenced internet study may be time dependent. Those spending more time using wi-fi or cellular data have more severe symptoms.

Airplane mode does not turn off mobile phones' base station. Escheon requires mobile phones to remain trackable and remotely controllable. SAR from cellular transmission is emitted. Turning on wifi after turning on airplane mode exposes users and nearby occupants to SAR from cellular and wi-fi. Turning off data does not actually turn off Eshelon's data. Researchers need to consider this factor when studying wi-fi addiction. Wi-fi is not just wi-fi when the wi-fi device is a mobile phone or a 3G or 4G tablet.

I suspect majority of internet addicts do not use a computer with an ethernet cable. They use a mobile phone and/or tablet. By so doing, they unknowingly expose themselves simultaneously to wifi and cellular.

Modem without wireless:

[Mitigation: Computers] Wifi Radiation Meter app detected high level. How to turn off wifi on a modem with an internal antenna?

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Internet addiction existed before the ubiquity of smartphones and wifi.

[–]badbiosvictim1

Source?

There are no papers comparing ethernet internet using a modem without wifi and cellular data and wifi. I am not talking about people with internet gaming disorder as many would use ethernt for the fastest connection. Internet gaming disorder is distinctly different than internet addiction disorder.

[–]subroc77

You never heard about internet addiction as a potential psychological issue pre-wifi?

[–]badbiosvictim1

I asked you to back up your debunking with sources. You didn't. You repeated your debunk in the form of a question. Read the rules in the sidebar. Debunkers must cite sources.

[–]subroc77

Calm down, chief.

Rosen, L. D. et al. (2012). iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold On Us. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230117570

Young, K. (1999b). Internet addiction: Symptoms, evaluation and treatment. In L. VandeCreek & T. Jackson (Eds.), Innovations in clinical practice: A source book, 17 (pp. 19–31). Sarasota, Florida: Professional Resource Press.

Young, K. (1999). The research and controversy surrounding internet addiction. Cyber Psychology and Behavior, 2, 381–383. Springer Int J Ment Health Addict (2006) 51

British e-learning academic Nicholas Rushby suggested in his 1979 book, An Introduction to Educational Computing, that people can be addicted to computers and suffer withdrawal symptoms. The term was also used by M. Shotton in 1989 in her book Computer Addiction. However, Shotton concludes in her book that the 'addicts' are not truly addicted. Dependency on computers, she argues, is better understood as a challenging and exiting pastime that can also lead to a professional career in the field. Computers do not turn gregarious, extroverted people into recluses; instead they offer introverts a source of inspiration, excitement and intellectual stimulation. Shotton's work seriously questions the legitimacy of the claim that computers cause addiction.

I mean, are you just asking for sources that people theorized about Internet addiction prior to wifi? Or are you asking me whether I believe it to be a legitimate DSM-worthy psychological condition?

[–]badbiosvictim1

Could you write a sentence about what point you are trying to make about your sources? You quoted a paragraph which did not discuss internet addiction prior to wifi and cellular data. Why?

Do you have a link to the article by Young or its review?

Your first source from reason.org stated as a JOKE a psychiatrist in 1995 suggested internet addiction be included as a diagnosis. In 1999, a thesis was written on internet addiction. Young had not conducted a survey.

I am skeptical internet addiction existed in 1999. What percentage of the population was addicted versus what percentage of the population owned a networked device or used a networked device at work?

In 1995, 14% of U.S. adults used the Internet; this had risen to 36% by 1998.

Pew Internet and American Life Project. Internet adoption, 1995-2012, Trend Data (Adults) 2012 Retrieved Feb 4, 2013, from http://www.pewinternet.org/Trend-Data-(Adults)/Internet-Adoption.aspx

In the 1980's, companies purchased main frame computers for word processors to use. Very few secretaries and professionals had access to main frame computers.

In the 1980's, personal computers were very expensive. Few people purchased them for home use or high school. In the 1980's, only corporations could afford dial up.

In the 1990s, mainframe computers were replaced with smaller computers. The price of personal computers decreased but was affordable for only the upper class and upper middle class.

In the early 1990's, dial up became available to consumers. Dial up was the sole source of internet. Dial up is ethernet. In the 1990s, a small percentage of people had internet at home.

Surveys on internet addiction need to include the questions what is the source of the network (ethernet, wifi or cellular data) the addicts are using and are there wi-fi and mobile phones at home, work and/or school.