“Information addiction” mostly occurs in highly educated people between the ages of 25 and 40, and the specific symptoms are that they spend a lot of time every day browsing the Internet for information, reading newspapers and magazines, but they are still unsure of themselves and feel that they have missed information. Once the network is blocked at home or at work, the TV is cut off, or electronic reading materials cannot be opened, they feel extremely uncomfortable, become anxious and restless, always worry about missing important information and news, and fear negative effects on their work. At the same time, there will be physical symptoms: insomnia, headache, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, etc. Professor Shen Zheng of the Department of Psychology at Peking University said that addictive behaviors are divided into two types: chemical addiction and behavioral addiction. Chemical addiction is easy to understand, such as dependence on heroin, opium, cocaine. The other kind is behavioral addiction. Like chemical addiction, behavioral addicts will do something repeatedly that they cannot restrain themselves from doing, such as not being able to control themselves to keep surfing the Internet or keep collecting certain things, and many girls will keep buying various styles of bags. Information addiction is not only a behavioral addiction, but also a psychological addiction. Addicts have a strong psychological need to browse information and keep repeating the act of collecting information. Once forced to discontinue, painful and anxious emotions arise, and somatic symptoms also appear. One third of the human brain is structured as a behavioral reinforcement system. Doing something repeatedly causes the behavioral reinforcement system to become overexcited and the sympathetic nervous system to become highly altered, so that the person becomes addicted to the behavior engaged in repeatedly. When the addictive behavior pattern is frustrated and cannot be carried out, it produces a reaction similar to that of an opium smoker when he or she is suddenly forced to detox. Many people work in jobs where they are constantly collecting information, but why don’t they become “information addicted”? According to Professor Shen, the psychology of work determines whether or not there will be “information addiction”. People with “information addiction” work passively, and the purpose of their work is mostly to maintain their life, but not to integrate their ideals and pursuit of life into their work. In the process of collecting information, they do not take the initiative to use their creativity, and even when they find valuable information, they just feel that they have a job to do, but have no sense of accomplishment at all.