Study examiines internet addiction

A new study examines internet addiction among teens, according to an article in today's New York Daily News:

"It's like a giant slot machine," says clinical psychologist David Greenfield, director of the Center for Internet Behavior and author of "Virtual Addiction" (New Harbinger, 1999). "You have stimulating and potent information and content, and then you have it offered in a way that has no boundaries, no beginning and no end." He says that's also the reason people check their E-mail so often: "There's an unpredictability, and you never know what you're going to get, how good it's going to be and when you're going to get it."