Kimberly Young, PhD, director of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery in Bradford, Pennsylvania, www.netaddiction.com, and author of Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of Internet Addiction — and a Winning Strategy for Recovery (Wiley). She is professor of management sciences at St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, New York, and serves on the board of CyberPsychology & Behavior.
The Internet has become so central to our lives that it has become tricky to determine how much time on…