International Journal of Development in Social Sciences and Humanities

Young people seem especially vulnerable, with case studies highlighting students whose academic performance plummets as they spend more and more time online. Some also suffer health consequences from loss of sleep, as they stay up later and later, to chat online, check for social network status updates or to reach the next game levels. There have been a number of tragic cases that have grabbed headlines and heightened the public’s concerns about compulsive internet use. Since mid 1990’s, more and more cases among college students have come to the attention to the university health professionals. Now the question arises, how prevalent is internet addiction among students? A major challenge to our understanding of these prevalence rates is that there are many different instruments used to assess addictive behavior. Therefore it is a need of this century, to research the area of internet addiction. In sincerity the present study concluded that greater use of the internet leads to turn down the mental health and adjustment level among college students of Ghaziabad