Impairment None Mild Moderate Severe.

             Academic 0% 2% 40% 58%.

             Relationship 0% 2% 45% 53%.

             Financial 0% 10% 38% 52%.

             Occupational 0% 15% 34% 51%.

             Physical 75% 15% 10% 0%.

             One of the most alarming of these were those whose real relationships were affected with plenty sad and at times disturbing anecdotes of people becoming too absorbed in the lures of the online community; for example, one mother had forgot about some of the more basic needs of her own children such as picking them up from school or making them dinner (Young 1-5).

             The academic arena is one that has been most recently seen affected. When surveyed at the Cranfield School of Management in the United Kingdom, about 39% of students 11 to 18 years old said that texting had taken its toll on their ability to proper write English. Probably more concerning was the 59.2% that openly admitted to plagiarism, "inserting information straight from the Internet into schoolwork, without actually reading or changing it, and then, shockingly, a third of those said that they considered that acceptable schoolwork (Goodwin). Then you have Californian psychologist Larry D. Rosen who referred to the "Google effect," what he described as "an inability to remember facts brought on by the realization [sic] they are all available via Google ("Rise " 8). What we see here can be construed as just laziness on part of this generation, a stereotype that I would agree with if not for the overwhelming evidence that suggests that this issue runs so much deeper, namely how we interact with each other when we are offline.

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             The detrimental effects that dependence on the Internet has on people is further outlined in the report "Technology Overload: Explaining, Diagnosing, And Dealing With Techno-Addiction" by Nada Kakabadse, a professor of management and business research at University of Northampton in the United Kingdom.