[photopress:Comp_playing_in_Hangzhou.jpg,full,alignright]According to a report by the People’s Daily, more than 40% of Chinese netizens spend their weekends surfing the Internet, and at least 70% of them have psychological problems that can be categorized as the Internet syndrome. The information was disclosed in the recently published White Book on the Health Conditions of Chinese Netizens. And it is probably wrong. Using the Internet to describe an addiction to online gaming, MMORPG, is very common and demonstrably incorrect.
Thus if you rename the Internet syndrome as the Online Gaming syndrome you are much nearer the truth for this refers to a series of physical and mental problems caused by using the computer for too long time, including wrist pain, eye fatigue, cervical strain and depression.
According to the white book, more than 73% of the respondents say they feel dizzy and pain in their joints. Quite a lot of them also have sleep disorders like insomnia. Some 30% of them suffer from hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. Nearly half of them complain about stomach pain.
But it simply is impossible to find someone suffering in this way from accessing Baidu or Alibaba or any other informational site. It all comes from multi-player Internet games like War of the Worlds. To call that gaming problem an Internet syndrome is misleading.
Source: China News