Internet Addiction

Korean parents neglect they're real baby to take care of a virtual child. What is wrong with the world? I wonder if internet addiction will be a viable defense at their trial? Gaming and internet addiction seems to me a ridiculous phenomenon but appears to be real. Yet, I can't wrap my mind around how someone can become so into a game that they neglect themselves or the ones around them. I've seen my boyfriend and my son sit and play video games for almost 24 hours straight and I don't see the appeal. To not eat because you are so obsessed with playing a game sounds like a bad joke. What is wrong with these people? Perhaps I don't understand because I don't have an addictive personality. There is nothing that compels me to continue to do it. Have the people who neglect their own general welfare or that of a child lost akll touch with reality? Can video gaming lead to a form of psychosis? Online addiction is a new concept and surely will become more widespread as people become more sedentary and as we continue to create products that make it easier not to have to physically move to acquire or use the product. Online shopping, online television, interactive gaming, virtual babies...the list goes on and on. Are humans as we know them becoming extinct? Will we all become internet obsesses zombies with no real lives just interactive ones? Scary.