SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION- PART-2

SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION-PART-2 

Social  media  though a new means of communication has brought  about astounding changes in our social relationship with such a rapid pace that no other  form of media can claim to have. Realizing the human need to share  and  connect with each other, different social networking site  emerged to meet the demand with the inception of widespread internet. We have seen the   rise  and  demise of different of social media in short period of time.

Social networking sites are seemingly in  fierce  competition with each other since the beginning.  They constantly try to  innovate  new features to attract more users and their spare time  which helps us to resonate what lead them to design their product more attractive. It has made it  founders billionaires within shortest possible time.  Many  psychotherapists  expressed their concern  that kids  are spending average nine hours  in social media  which  is certainly over dose even if we assume that it is totally good.

Recently Nottingham Trent   University has conducted review study that  looked   back earlier  research on the psychological characteristics, personality and social media use. The authors have given   concluding remarks saying “  Facebook  addiction Disorder”…. Because  addiction criteria such  as  neglect of  personal life, mental preoccupation, escapism,  mood modifying experiences , tolerance and concealing the addictive  behavior appear to be present in some people who use social  networks  excessively.

Perhaps this is not the right time to say overall  impact of social  media  as  harmful but one thing  for sure today’s parents are facing real challenges is to  control their kids from spending time  on social media.  They  particularly attribute the s changing behavior  pattern of getting

disconnected  from real world ok s kids and teenagers  to their screen time effect.

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