Internet Addiction From a Moral Perspective and its Ethical Pathology

Today, the Internet has become an inseparable part of human life. The internet is used in schools, universities, banks, business and social relationships, etc. Although the Internet is beneficial for social life, it has some problems, such as the excessive use of this technology that is called Internet addiction. So far, a lot of research on the causes and context of the creation of internet addiction and its problems has been done, and in these researches, lots of problems including ethical problems have been mentioned. If we assume that the user has used the Internet as quite ethical, and not doing any unethical behavior such as pornography and lewd counter-religious intimate heterosexual relationship, is the excessive use of the internet morally right? Will the excessive use of the Internet, in this case, cause moral problems? In this paper, these issues will be discussed from the perspective of Islamic morality.