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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Are you a Social Media Addict?



A marriage and family therapist quoted in a CNN.com article, "Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook" thinks that spending more than one hour on facebook already makes you an addict. Surprised?


After going through some definitions, including those posted below, do you think you are addicted? Tell us why you think so as a comment to this entry. You can include the moment when you realised you were a SNS addict. :)

What is Social Media Addiction?

The urban dictionary's definition:



The below are some definitions submitted to us in our survey of youths aged 15-24. Do add your definition via a comment to this entry!



And more....


"Spending way too much time doing it. Like me now. "

"When one keeps on writing about himself/herself so that others know. This usually does not matter as it's not a good thing to want people to care. Could end up in stalking of privacy."

"unable to concentrate on work and wanting to kill others (literally) around you when the oportunity to log in to social sites fail."

"When you consider those without it crazy."

"constantly posting stuff whether people are interested or not"