Effects of ICT on the youth: A study about the relationship between internet usage and social isolation among Iranian students

This paper concentrates on the effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on the youth behaviours. According to some studies people who have been using internet more or in another word addicted to the net, are faced to the social isolation. To test the relationship between these two factors, ICT and social behaviour, a random sampling included 500 people were selected from the society of Shiraz University students. We used the UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, 1996) and Young Scale for Internet addiction (Young, 1998) to gathering data. The Results indicated that %13.2 of student's are addicted to the net and more result showed significant difference between differed users groups. Addicted group are more alone than other groups.