First homework

I remember one moment of my life when I was a child  I used to be very calm but when my father bought my first computer  with an internet access  I met the worst side of me, I became an “Internetholic”.

At the beginning I didn’t know how to use the internet because in that time it was something new. Some days later I started to learn about it and with a lot of practice I was able to understand it.

My first’s steps in internet were playing in sites like “cartoonnetwork.com” or similar kid’s sites, then I opened my first e-mail account at yahoo.com which I still conserve. At yahoo.com there were many kinds of groups and I found one that was of my favorite cartoon show.  I started to mail the people that were subscribed to those groups. I had found out that I had many friends so one of them told me to download yahoo messenger, so I did it and I realized that it was a easier way to communicate with them; because of that my addiction began.

I was logged in 24/7 at first my parents didn’t care that much but they started to worry because I stopped doing other important things, I only care about internet.  I didn’t realize that this was a problem so I kept doing it. The problem became bigger and bigger so my parents got mad and I got grounded several times.  At that time I used to scream and cry so loud because my dad took my internet away he even took the CPU away.  I started to realize that this was a problem.

I also liked to download movies and series and I didn’t care about viruses and my computer died. My father didn’t want me to buy another but he did, he told me that I need to be more responsible for my things and not to use internet every day.

I recognized that I had problem because my friends got angry because instead of going out with them I preferred playing in the internet.  They stopped talking to me and then I convinced myself to stop that addiction My self-esteem was going down to the floor and I started to change.

The first action I did was turn off my modem when I was doing homework. Then I began to sleep earlier. That last thing helped me in so many ways.

I learned my lesson, my parents don’t get angry anymore and I can hang out with my friends and do more activities; I’m sleeping more hours and doing different things in the day to avoid the use of internet.