My mom has been harping on
me the last little while about constantly being on Facebook. So it got me to
thinking can people be addicted to social media? Are their potential dangers to
being addicted? I decided to do a little bit of research to find out what some
of the dangers are and whether I really am addicted.
Social
Media addiction has been recognized over the last couple of years as a new
serious social problem. It is by no means different from any other type of
addiction, remaining harmful to all forms of relationships (work relationships,
personal relationships and other family dynamics.) A new online study has
found out that the urge to use social media is uncontrollable and often results
in people getting addicted to them. The study also revealed that social media
addiction is more than even cigarettes and alcohol addiction. Social Media addiction
should still be handled with the same care and commitment that we use to battle
any other type of addiction.
There
are some people who can no longer function "normally" without
Facebook. For them life is complex and stressful when cut-off from their
virtual life. Facebook addiction is considered the worst out of all social
networking sites. Some people get so busy in their virtual life that they start
forgetting about their real life. They begin to neglect the people and the responsibilities
around them. This can cause people to be socially inept. This is probably the
biggest problem to being addicted to social media.
According
to psychiatrists social media addiction can lead to reduced creativity and creation of
passive thoughts in the mind, which will affect the overall productivity in
people. It can also lead to low self-esteem and reduced concentration levels
among other mental disorders. These problems usually occur in adult’s aged 18
to 25.
So according to this information I am not addicted to social media...Thank Goodness! I am definitely going to take this information to heart and try to control the amount of time i use social media.
Here
are some facts about social media addiction:
•
About a third of women between the ages of 18 and 34 go online to
check their Facebook messages and updates before brushing their teeth.
•
About 21% people from a group of 1605 that were questioned for the
research admitted that they woke up in the middle of the night to see if
something new had happened on Facebook.
•
A large part of the Facebook-generation is older than 35, and it would
seem that they prefer instant messages and posts above real conversations.
(Oxygen Media and
Lightspeed Research).
Here is a lighthearted
video on Social Media Addiction:
-Chelsea Andrade
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