Social media addiction is a term that indicates spending a very long time on these sites such as "Facebook", "Instagram", "Twitter", and other social media sites, and as a result of this excessive use this person's daily life is affected.
Despite this, there is no medical recognition of social media addiction as a disease, the bad habit of using social media excessively has always been the subject of discussion and research, according to the website "The Wisdom Post".
What is social media addiction?
Addiction simply means compulsive behavior that leads to negative effects. In this case, social media addiction refers to the person who uses these sites compulsively. For example, it refers to those people who spend long hours browsing updates of the communication sites or chasing other people.
However, it cannot be determined if a person is addicted to social media because he spends a lot of time on these sites to follow the news or to entertain and kill time .. How can we say that this person is specifically addicted to social media?
Although there is no specific description for a social media addict, but doctors have identified some general characteristics such as excessive use accompanied by depression, anxiety disorders or other psychological disorders, in addition to some other signs that determine whether this person is addicted to social media sites or not.
Signs of social media addiction
The first thing you do when you wake up from sleep
A lof of healthy people are browsing social media as part of their morning routine, but if these sites are the first thing that an individual thinks of once they wake up urgently and compulsively, and you feel that during the sleep period you have missed a lot of news and updates, then this may be a sign of Social media addiction.
Waste time and stall
One of the signs of social media addiction is the chasm of spending a lot of time on these sites and following up on news and updates in a way that affects the rest of the activities of daily life and productivity.
If the individual is procrastinating at the time to follow the updates first-hand and does not miss anything with something that affects his achievement in the work, for example, this is a sign of addiction.
Virtual friends only
If an individual actually has no friends and only communicates with virtual friends, then this is another sign that networking addiction is beginning to take his path to an individual's life.
Feeling of dissatisfaction and loneliness
And because the social media addict remains all the time staring at the screen and lacks real social communication, he is dominated by a feeling of loneliness and isolation and thus a feeling of dissatisfaction and happiness as studies say.