Replacing life with the Internet

The Hindu | Sruthi Krishnan and Shyam Ranganathan

“There will be a big problem if people replace real world with Internet”

Earlier this week, the first rehabilitation centre for ‘Internet addicts’ was opened in the United States. De-addiction camps in China were in the news recently for the death of a teenager because of the brutal methods used there to cure ‘Internet addiction.’ “There is a big problem on hand if many people replace the real world with the Internet instead of using it as a device to enhance interactions,” he says.