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Social media similar to addiction like symptoms

1. Social is used to reduce negative emotions, to increase happiness
2. Tolerence level for social media increases with time, to maintain satisfying feelings from usuage
3. Withdrawl symptoms: Often feelings of psychological and physical discomfort when prohibited to use social media
4. Conflict: Negatively impacts users daily life, avoiding education, work, house hold duties, activites and negleticing social interactions
5. Relapse: Once individiual gives up on frequent social media use, one will be unsuccessful. *** Although these symptoms are prevelant in social media users in this study, there is still no established/concrete clinical classification information for social media addiction

Data to include in article

Social media's most popular platforms

Smart phones

Who is at risk? (missing from orginal article)

-Adolescents 4.5% at risk of becoming addicted to social media

- Most adolescents that use social media present some sort of addiction symptoms

In the article "Time distortion when users at-risk for social media addiction engage in non-social media tasks", the studies based numbers off of how long individuals spent on social media and that time disortion represented addiction like symptoms

Interesting statements in article:

Social media addiction, my arise other problematic behaviours, for instance using smart phones while driving.

How is one able to tell if they have an addiction, besides from symptoms listed above? One can anaylze the amount of time is spent on social media.

*Addictions is a certain type of impulse control disorder, which may lead for one to loose track of time while using social media.

For example ones psychological clock may runner slow than usual and their self-consciousness is compromised

One can anaylze how much time is spent on social media, to discover if an addiction is present. Addictions is a certain type of impulse control disorder, which may lead one to loose track of time while using social media. For example, ones psychological clock may runner slow than usual and their self-consciousness is compromised . Therefore, individuals may passively consume media for longer amounts of time. Also, In the digital age, it is common for adolescent to use their smart phones for entertainment purposes, education, news, and managing their daily life. Therefore, adolescents are further at risk for developing addictive behaviours and habits.