The purpose of the study is to understand the relationship between subjects' motivation of using internet and their addiction to internet, using the senior high school students in Kinmen of the 2009 academic year as the subjects. The instrument of the study is questionnaire; the sampling method is purposeful sampling. 600 questionnaires are distributed, among them 522 are effective. Statistical analysis conducted include: percentage, mean, T-test, one-way ANOVA, Chi-Square, and Pearson's r. The findings: The main motivations of their using the internet are: information downloading, multimedia contents browsing, and online gaming. Male students are more motivated to use the internet as a mean of leisure and socialization, as their female counterparts are to use it as a tool for education and utility purposes. Students with blue collared parents suffer a more serious addiction to the internet than those with parents whose occupations are governmental employees or teachers. The motivation of using the internet for educational purposes is significantly stronger in the students of general senior high school than that in the students of vocational school.