Does technology can really affect our behavior to the environment?For better or worse, the technology could be causing major havoc in relationships.494SHARED17631885.5 KVIEWSTechnology advances and is increasingly being introduced in our daily lives.Internet, social networks, connectivity and mobile devices lead to an increasingly connected world, which has caused a major shift in the way we interact and communicate.Using the Internet and video games since childhood has made new generations with increasingly better technology that reach almost instinctively use and manage a broad technological knowledge at an early age.This phenomenon can be both positive and negative;positive in the sense that the technology has become a contribution in education, and negative for generating change in the way children and adolescents have to build relationships with their peers, in addition to the high risks involved in exposing much information on the net.To see the impact of technology on interpersonal relationships, talk to the child and adolescent psychologist Francisca Rodriguez, who believes that technology can have good and bad influences on children and youth in psychological matters.According to the professional, "is very positive that young people know how to use technology, internet and social networks, because they are channels that serve to communicate, butparents have the responsibility to teach their children the proper use of technological tools, in their use in their favor, not against. "According to the specialist, sometimes technology can very negatively affect children and young way, because it can cause isolation from the real world, because they spend many hours surfing the Internet, chatting or playing video games, and lost significant time they could use doing other activities with their peers.It also considers dangerous exposure to high youth undergo online."I've had patients come to the consultation due to parental concern because they relate to other children and youth. These patients are generally only 'virtual friends' and can have more than 1,000 contacts in your Facebook, but do not know any of them. "For Rodriguez this problem generates that young people have different problems of social behavior in the long term can lead to other personal problems such as lack of communication with the real world.What happens when you fall in internet addiction?Another issue is the "Internet addiction" problem that arises when people become completely dependent on internet connectivity and can even lead them to have symptoms of distress, anxiety and violence if they do not have access to the network and togenerate brain abnormalities similar to those generated by the addiction to alcohol and drugs.According to experts, this addiction can lead people to depression, nervousness, irritability, panic and little interest in living with others.While in Latin America this still is not an extreme problem in countries like the US, China and England a lot of cases of Internet addicts concentrates, which has even led to the opening of clinics specializing in the subject.The first case of Internet addiction was recognized in 2008 in China, and then in the United States, where they opened the first clinic for this condition in 2009.In China it is the Beijing Treatment Center in charge of treating the large number of Chinese who have this problem.It is estimated that the country has about 2.5 million internet addicts, according to Dr. Tao Ran, founder of the medical center.In most patients aged between 18 and 36 years who are admitted by their parents to cure this disorder.So far this clinic has about 1,500 patients and has a 70% success in their treatments, which consist of physical training sessions and sports, plus relaxation sessions which are coordinated by psychologists and psychiatrists.The English are also addressing the problem by setting up a clinic for children addicted to internet.This is an open clinic at Capio Nightingale private hospital located in central London.At this clinic patients between 12 and 15 years are cared for, having personalized patient therapies.The main goal of this treatment is to increase the confidence of adolescents in actual encounters over the virtual.In addition, young people are helped to manage energy and excitement caused by long hours playing on the PC and consoles.If there is something to remember is that technology properly used, can have a lot of utilities, both educational and communicative, and even closer to our family and / or friends who are elsewhere.However, if the technology is not well used, it can cause isolation, lack of communication and other serious problems.