Internet-Based Shopping Addiction: Behavioral Patterns, Consumerism, and Digital Dependency
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This paper examines internet-based shopping addiction as a behavioral addiction affecting multiple generations. It explores how online platforms, marketing strategies, and consumerism drive compulsive purchasing behaviors, arguing that internet shopping addiction is a legitimate mental health concern often disguised as normal consumer activity.
What this essay covers
- Introduction and definition of internet addiction as behavioral addiction linked to capitalism
- Identification of internet addiction symptoms including video gaming, social media usage, and compulsive online shopping
- Analysis of consumerism as the underlying mechanism of shopping addiction, examining marketing tactics and celebrity influence
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Technology has revolutionized the world, and everyone is on their toes to match the pace. Most people are attached to their electronic devices than it was ten years ago. In the pervasive era of technology, Internet has become more addictive than drugs. Moreover, it can also be described as a behavioral addiction, whereby an individual engages in habits or behaviors despite their negative effects. Today, most businesses are done online, and the activities are quite enticing, leaving most people clung to these online services. What facilitates internet addiction? How do you outride internet ambitions? Internet-based addiction is a diverse and extensive topic that resonates with people and capitalism (Correa, 2020).
Additionally, it is a behavioral addiction in which an individual is so dependent on the Internet; in this case, the rhetorical purpose is embedded on the Internet. Everyone is addicted to internet services in different ways; for example, some people use the Internet to relieve stress. On the other hand, some would use the Internet to satisfy their ego or elevate their status quo (Jain, Tripathi, Ganesh & Sheth, 2018). Notably, some countries such as Korea, Europe, and America have the largest number of internet addictions. How do you know you are addicted to the Internet? Firstly, if you are too much into video gaming, online shopping, or online sex, it is a perfect clue that you are addicted to the Internet.