Natalie Carney – Internet Addiction Rises in Turkey

Published December 12, 2012

Natalie Carney – Internet Addiction Rises in Turkey – More and more people are “logging on” as the Internet becomes increasingly available to everyone, even those in the most remote corners of the world. However with this surge of web users, comes a surge of web addicts. Although the concept of “internet addiction” has been debated by specialists since the mid 90’s, Turkey has been progressively acknowledging the illness by opening Internet addiction clinics all across the country to help treat this modern day problem. Natalie Carney has more from Istanbul

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