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However, what seems to be alert and an object of our concerns, and the description of behaviors adopted for the navigators of the virtual world and the consequncias that start to appear after one decade and stocking of conviviality of the users, especially those that already reveal dependence: depression, social phobia, difficulties in the interpersonal relations, low tolerance to the frustration, low capacity of confrontation, social anxiety and low autoestima, pertaining to school loss of the sleep cycle, damages, problems of attention etc. The stories pointed for studious researchers and show that it has cases where the dependence is so intense, frequent and lasting who arrest children, adolescents and young for followed hours making with that the same ones not even leave to feed or to make its basic necessities. This type of behavior is despertando the interest of psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, researchers and educators, in different places of the world, that if they show worried about what they have observed. As in other areas and discoveries human beings, the problem is not in the instrument, in the invented object, but in the capacity of the human being in defining until point something it can be useful or harmful. Common-sense recommends that she is necessary to think about those that not yet have to be able or discernment enough to know to make the choice.

It is possible to leave for the child and the adolescent, the decision of the use and the time of permanence in the virtual environment? To who its accompaniment fits? Although the use of the technological tools is a decision of the free will of the people, the analysis cannot be superficial, therefore complex subjects do not have simplistas solutions. It perpassa the individual, the family, the social environment, the culture, the institutions that must be vigilant and to act with prudence so that what it was created to contribute with the human being not if transforms into fertile land for manifestation of others and new patologias. 1 Doctor in Education UFRGS. Professor of the URI-Campus of Erechim.