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Compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance or act characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal
• Total number of active users per month:
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• Average amount of hours spent per month:
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• To gain approval or acknowledgementfrom peers
• Comfort with the superficial banter on social media sites
• Escapism: escaping from an unpleasant reality
• Obsessive thoughts about“friends”and the other aspects of social media
• Spending more than one hour daily at social media sites.
• Checking Facebook whenever possible
• Over-sharing
• Your family and friends are
• Interference with your offline social life
• Withdrawal symptoms in attempt to cut down on the time spent
• Losing sleep to go on Facebook or other sites
• A study from Tel Aviv University (Israel) reveals that social media can have a great negative effect on the user’s mental health.
• Three victims of intense virtual relationships:
- Psychotic episodes – delusions
- Perceivable hallucinations
• Great feelings of vulnerability and exposure
- Some report hallucinations of the person behind the screen physically touching them.
• One in every three Facebook users experience feelings of jealousy and envy after spending time on the site.
- Significant emotional damage done by looking at positive posts and
• The more time people spend on Facebook, the worse they feel about their own lives: this may lead to attitude problems such as...
- Rudeness
- Desire to suppress others
- Indifference towards real-life sentiment
- Inconsiderate behavior
• Spending too much time on social media will ultimately lead to a dysfunctional and disorganized offline lifestyle
- Possible development of social disorders
- Disability to focus on simple everyday tasks
- Interference with academic
• Changes occur in brain activity while accessing a social site that may remain active for long periods of time.
- A“need”is developed, and accessing the site becomes a method of restoring homeostasis.
• The Reward System provides motivation
- Follows the arousal theory of motivation
- Receiving a“like”from someone
• People strive to achieve self-actualization
• According to Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs: Strong emphasis on acceptance and social security.
• Incentives such as“Likes”encourage one to continue the behavior
- Positive reinforcement using secondary drive
• The positive reinforcement is continued with constant feedback, and the user develops a ‘habit of pleasure’
• Admit you have a problem! Do not deny it.
• Figure out exactly how much time you spend on social sites.
• Set a specific time schedule and make a strenuous effort to stick to it.
• Take some time away from social media.
• Just block the sites that are bothering you.