title: Social and Psychological Effects of the Internet Use.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Over the past two decades there was an upsurge of the use of Internet in human life. With this continuous development, Internet users are able to communicate with any part of the globe, to shop online, to use it as a mean of education, to work remotely and to conduct financial transactions. Unfortunately, this rapid development of the Internet has a detrimental impact in our life, which leads to various phenomena such as cyber bullying, cyber porn, cyber suicide, Internet addiction, social isolation, cyber racism etc. The main purpose of this paper is to record and analyze all these social and psychological effects that appears to users due to the extensive use of the Internet.
  
  
  METHODS
  This review study was a thorough search of bibliography data conducted through Internet and library research studies. Key words were extracted from search engines and data bases including Google, Yahoo, Scholar Google, PubMed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings of this study showed that the Internet offers a quick access to information and facilitates communication however; it is quite dangerous, especially for young users. For this reason, users should be aware of it and face critically any information that is handed from the website.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, Faculty for Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diomidous
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, Faculty for Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Kostis
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chardalias
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, Faculty for Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Adrianna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Magita
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, Faculty for Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koutonias
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, Faculty for Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Paraskevi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Panagiotopoulou
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, Faculty for Nursing, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mantas
keywords: Cyber racism; Cyberbullying; Internet; Internet Addiction; Internet Risks; Online scams; Social Network