According to the research done by Lapointe et al [27] ,their results revealed that four smartphone user profiles. In two of these profiles, users are exhibiting addictive behaviors. In the first group, the users' profile corresponds to that of other types of additions. In the second group, known definitions of addiction do not apply and the characteristics of these users are very different. Their results then suggest that adopting traditional conceptualizations of addiction will not be sufficient to define, understand and manage IT addictive behaviors.