Coming out of the not so far east there are stories about
new internet boot camps that seem to be popping up all over China. From brutal punishments, kidnapping and even
deaths there is growing panic over this growing virtual "plague" known as internet addiction. Chinese people seem to be getting more concerned about internet access and how their younger populous are being influenced by a world of new ideas. Even tough a lot of these camps are not endorsed by the Chinese government little is being done to stop them. A
new study give parents more to worry about as they found depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), social phobia or feelings of hostility to be the most prevalent predictors of which children would go on to develop an internet addiction as adolescents. This kind of news is concerning as in many cases the poorly educated parents in rural China have no idea what constitues one of these conditions and are mis-diognising their own children out of consern for what internet addiction could bring.
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