The large cross-lagged panel study, conducted by Mike Z. Yao and Zhi-jin Zhong in 2014, revealed that “Internet addiction is one of the possible factors which contribute to the subjective feeling of loneliness and depression” (169 Yao, Zhong). There is no extent to which users are addicted to the Internet as the brain has adapted to be constantly connected. Since the Internet and social media are also available on phones, the addiction is easily satiated. Although mobile social media addiction is the most rudimentary form of Internet addiction, many users experience illnesses. Those who are addicted to the Internet, even slightly, manifest the most basic diseases, one of which is phantom vibration syndrome. Phantom vibration syndrome occurs when the brain detects or perceives that a cell phone has notified the user of Internet activity when in reality the phone never sent a notification. A study was conducted in 2010 to see who had this syndrome and 88% of participants admitted to experiencing it on a weekly or monthly basis, revealing that there is clearly some sort of addiction (DROIN STUDY). Nomophobia, the phobia of being without a phone, is also an important disease that exemplifies the extent of Internet addiction. In a survey of 1,000 people it emerged that two-thirds of the participants suffered from nomophobia and that nomophobia
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