The increase in the use of information technologies encompasses
all educational and social issues, even changing intergenerational
skills. It is considered that the most conditioned to this effect are
adolescents and young people. This research is a literary review
of various studies on addiction and Internet abuse and presents
relevant results of the situation of college students and their level of
Internet use. The study was developed in seven educational units
of Ecuador, with a sample of n = 773 students (53.6% men and
46.4% women). An instrument with sufficient validation guarantees
(α.94) has been applied, verified by means of a factorial analysis of
main components, which determined two study factors in the use of
the Internet and loss of control and interference with life. Through a
statistical treatment (Pearson) a good correlation was established
(,62) between the two study dimensions, which is a concern in the
educational field.