Resumen

OSIO FLORES, A. M. et al. ¿Is the nomofobia, a problem of de century?. Arch.Boliv.Med. [online]. 2014, vol.22, n.90, pp. 56-63. ISSN 0004-0525.

The use of mobile phones has increased worldwide over the past decade, especially in children and adolescents. The cell phone is also an important communication tool for daily use. The Information Technology and Communication (ICT) are called to make life easier, but they can also make it more complicated. In some circumstances, they are affecting mostly adolescents. Internet and technology resources can become an end rather than a means. If there is an unhealthy obsession to acquire the latest technological novelty (eg mobile or music stands) or ICT become the priority instrument of pleasure, be craving the latest fashions can mask more powerful needs. Social networks can also catch in some cases a teenager because the virtual world helps to create a false identity on him and distance him (loss of personal contact) or to distort the real world. Any undue bias towards any activity can lead to an addiction, whether or not a chemical involved. Addiction is a pathological dependence hobby that generates freedom and human remains to narrow its field of consciousness and restrict the breadth of his interests being. In fact, there are seemingly harmless habits of behavior that under certain circumstances, can become addictive and seriously interfere with the daily lives of those affected, to family, school, social or health level

Palabras llave : Phobia; nomofobia; social phobia; agoraphobia.