Financial
problems may occur due to the significant
amount of time spent on-line and the service
provider charges. Common financial issues
are large bills for use of some services,
the telephone connection and electrical charges
and telephone bills for calls made to “friends”
in chat rooms. Other financial charges may
include e-shopping on sites like eBay and
credit card charges for purchases may become
high when addicts do not keep track of how
much they spent. In addition, there are various
websites which attracts pathological gamblers
to place high stakes online and they may end
up losing hundreds or even thousands overnight.
All these activities would put a strain on
the internet addicts finances and if they
do not curb their addiction, they may well
face the threat of declaring bankruptcy.
