Pay attention to Internet addicted teenagers

An expert in Shandong Province who specializes in youth Internet addiction provided a set of figures: As of the first half of 2006, there were tens of millions of Internet users in Shandong Province, including 24 Teenagers under the age of 4 account for 40%. Among these young Internet users, more than 20% are addicted to it and cannot extricate themselves, becoming Internet "addicts".

How did these teenagers from different levels and family backgrounds become victims of "electronic opium"? On September 10, two Internet-addicted teenagers and their families told reporters about their experiences of being addicted to the Internet.

I have only been taking classes for one and a half months

Xiaoqing, 18 years old, is a girl from Jinan, 1.75 meters tall, smart and beautiful. In 2004, when she was 16 years old, she was admitted to a key university in another province. However, soon after entering college, she unfortunately became addicted to the Internet.

“How many friends do you have in QQ?” This was her first sentence when she met the reporter. "I have more than 200, and they are all over the country. You definitely don't have as many as me." When mentioning netizens, Xiaoqing's eyes were still glowing with excitement.

I went to the Shandong Provincial Mental Health Center to quit my Internet addiction in December 2005. To be honest, I was in a daze at that time.

At that time, I stayed in the Internet cafe all day long, eating whatever I wanted when I was hungry. At the worst point, I didn't leave an Internet cafe for a week. I was on my period at the time, and I didn't even bother to change my sanitary napkin. When I walked out of the Internet cafe, my pants were covered in blood.

Since I was in middle school, I have studied hard and wanted to get into a key university. The college entrance examination score line in Shandong Province is extremely high, and studying is everything to me. By the time I was in my senior year of high school, I spent fourteen to five hours in class and doing homework every day.

When I went to college, my classes suddenly became less frequent and I suddenly had a lot of free time. It didn’t take long for me to make many friends in the virtual world.

In November 2004, I made my first boyfriend online. He is also a college student and is from Hunan. I tell him all my troubles and he always makes me laugh in the end. But he insisted not to video chat with me. I suspected that he was ugly, so I put him on the "blacklist".

I met my second boyfriend in June 2005. He lives in Fujian and his online name is "wearing other people's shoes". It was because I thought this name was so interesting that I got to know him. On the Internet, we can say whatever we want, and we can act like a baby in any way we want.

In the two semesters from September 2004 to July 2005, I took classes for no more than 6 weeks in total. In July 2005, I officially went through the formalities of suspending my studies.

Every conceivable method has been used

Liangliang is a high school student in Heze City, Shandong Province. He started to access the Internet at the age of 13 and has now been online for 5 years. From beating and scolding to giving up, the family members used all methods available. In an office building in Jinan City, the reporter met Liangliang's aunt.

At first, his family thought that access to the Internet would be beneficial to Liangliang’s intellectual development, so they did not stop him from accessing the Internet. Later, Liangliang always left home to go to school early in the morning on the grounds of "enhancing learning". My brother and sister-in-law were very distressed, so they took the time to go to the school to watch. However, there was no sign of him in the classroom at all. My sister-in-law followed him for several days and found that he went to an Internet cafe.

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So, the family limited his time and pocket money. However, he couldn't listen to the good words at all. My brother beat him so hard that once he even split the wooden board. At first, the deterrent effect was great, but after a while, the old behavior returned. Drag him out from the Internet cafe and give him another nasty meal. If you hit him harder, you'll be fine for two or three days; if you beat him lightly, he'll end up in the Internet cafe again the same day. In this way, Liangliang went through the cycle of surfing the Internet and being beaten. In the high school entrance examination, his score was very low and he was not admitted to high school. Afraid that he would be a bad student in society, his family paid for him to repeat his studies for a year. As a result, he basically spent this year in Internet cafes.

What the parents didn’t expect was that as Liangliang grew older, her “wings” became hard, and beating and scolding no longer worked. When his mother beat him, he didn't say a word, just looked coldly and hostile. After that, he started staying up all night.

Liangliang’s academic performance was not very good since she was a child. When she was in junior high school, she sat in the last row. Children who study well are generally not placed in the last row, which makes them less confident. Online games gave him confidence and a sense of accomplishment. He himself said that among more than 200,000 players, he could play in the top 10. There is one thing that proves Liangliang's "skill": his family has cut off his source of income, but he never steals or grabs the license to play. He said he made money by selling his "level" and "equipment."

Later, my brother and sister-in-law spent a lot of money to let Liangliang go to high school. In this high school, many students "buy points" to get in. The unwritten rule of the school is that students must pay a fine if they are absent from class. As long as they enter the classroom, they don't care even if they fall asleep. Since then, Liangliang has developed the habit of staying up all night surfing the Internet and sleeping in class during the day.

We don’t understand the bright online games, such as “levels”, “orcs”, “practice”, etc.; and he simply can’t listen to the adults’ preaching. Finally, my brother and sister-in-law got desperate and gave up on disciplining the children. Since then, Liangliang has gained an unprecedented "relaxed environment".

After a while, my brother and sister-in-law didn’t give up. At the end of 2005, they bought Liangliang his favorite computer. My brother said that instead of letting him surf the Internet outside, it is better to let him surf the Internet at home, so that we can get to know him better and communicate better. But the condition is that the computer must be placed in the brother-in-law's bedroom.

Over the past few months, the effect has been pretty good. He frequently chatted with me on the Internet, and finally started communicating with his relatives again.

Expert analysis:

Parents of Internet addicted teenagers have a common characteristic, that is, most of them are busy with work or neglect to communicate with their children, which results in their loneliness and sense of belonging. . When they discover that their children are obsessed with the Internet, most parents do not use rational and appropriate communication methods at first, but mostly reprimand and beat them, hoping that they will "change their minds" overnight and cut off from the Internet, while ignoring the causes of their children's Internet access and the The victim deserves help. The scolding, beating and scolding at this time will push the child deeper into the quagmire. Parents are a crucial link in the chain of eliminating Internet addiction. Teenagers are psychologically and physically dependent on their parents. Increasing communication and rebuilding trust with their children will help them get rid of their Internet addiction.

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