Abstract
More and more children and adolescents choose to live in a virtual world, a world of computers and televisions, loosing touch with the real world and its problems. Undoubtedly that the benefits of computers in everyday life can not be questioned, absolutely in every field of science or life the computer has become a good and indispensable friend due to its specific effectiveness. But things do not stop here because we know that anything, no matter how good it is, used excessively, especially during childhood and adolescence, may lead to seizure, to addiction and even disease.This paper has a dual purpose: to find both the degree of computer use by teenagers as extracurricular activities and also the factors that push them to use excessively the computer in their spare time. The main objectives of the article are: to draw attention to the fact that adolescents who spend too much time in front of the computer quickly become to have different problems in various areas of life; to identify the extent of computer use by adolescents, as a extracurricular activities; to explore the factors favoring that it causes adolescents to excessively use computer during their spare time; to present the consequences and the effects of computer dependency into the lives of Romanian teenagers.
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