INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : BOON OR BANE

Abstract

Virtual means "anything just like real but not actually real". This magic sentence was unheard of before the arrival of IT. The virtual friendship through Internet chatting is spreading fast. People spend thier precious time chatting with their online friends whom they have never seen and met. A recent survey in the metropolitan cities revelaed that chatting is the second most widely used application of the Internet after e-mail. This addiction for the research of a "true friend" in space is giving rise to many "psychiatric disorders".