 Dear students, now we are going to talk about the internet addiction. We come to know that due to the excessive use of internet in our day-to-day life, we are becoming internet addict and we here or we come to know that certain people are considered as internet addict. So what is internet addiction? Internet addiction is a problematic, compulsive use of the internet that results in significant impairment in an individual's functions in various life, domains over a prolonged period of time. So when we define internet addiction, then such compulsive use of internet, due to which your routine life gets disturbed and your different day-to-day life responsibilities and functions are not actively performed and if your problem goes on for a long time, then it is considered as internet addiction. Though when we talk about internet addiction, internet addiction is not considered as a psychological disorder by the American Psychological Association, but some scholars say that internet addiction is a leading health problem for the young generation who is heavily dependent on the internet. So if we talk about the symptoms of the internet addiction, we can categorize symptoms of internet addiction in three categories, physical symptoms, psychological symptoms or social symptoms. So let's first see the physical symptoms. So those who are internet addict may have back ache and headache. and the problems of dry eyes and vision can be solved their weight is increased or decreased and their dietary patterns can also be changed or they do compulsive waiting and they start avoiding eating and if we talk about social symptoms of internet addiction then your biggest symptom is inability to prioritize or keep schedules you can't prioritize your work and you can't follow your schedule you have to do things from time to time you are useless in that you become a victim of social isolation it's not good to talk to others it's not good to meet others you don't have any sense of the time you don't know when you are using mobile or internet and how long you have been using it defensiveness comes in your behavior you feel defensive whenever someone is talking to you and you avoid doing work you don't do your work well and you try not to do your work and you become bored with the routine tasks which are your day-to-day activities you start avoiding them and you start feeling bad when we talk about psychological symptoms of internet addiction you can be depressed you can have a feeling of guilt anxiety you can have a drastic swing in your mood and you may have the feeling of fear as well when we talk about diagnostics of internet addiction there is a popular criteria which was developed in 2005 to identify internet addiction disorder in general population and the first criteria is that is pre-occupied with the internet constantly thinks about past use or future use do you always complain about the internet or the purpose of using it needs to use the internet with the increased amount of time to gain satisfaction whenever you feel that you are doing something then you feel that you are using the internet or the internet timing is increasing day by day has made unsuccessful efforts to control cut back or stop use of the internet you want to use the internet less but you are not able to control your timing and you are restless, moody, depressed or irritable when attempting to control internet use and you have stayed online larger than originally intended so you go to any social media platform to see for 2-4 minutes and later you know that you have wasted 2-3 hours on it so these are all parameters based on which we can assess internet addiction at first level when we talk about internet addiction there are some other types of it like social media addiction, gaming addiction selfie addiction or pornographic addiction these types are considered as internet addiction and they are also considered as addiction