Social Media Addiction

First, social media, especially Facebook, are very addicted. People would say drug or alcohol is more addicted than social media or social media addiction is not big problems, but it is not true. There is a report of the social media addiction by University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. A team from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business recently conducted an experiment involving 205 people in Wurtzburg, Germany to analyze the addictive properties of social media and other devices. Participants in the week-long study were polled via BlackBerry smartphones seven times per day and asked to report when they experienced a desire within the past 30

Addictions may seem like simple pleasures at first. Unfortunately, that's the trap with any addiction. It starts out at a pleasurable interest. Gradually, it can turn into something that's life-altering and all-consuming. Not only can it alter your own life, it can ruin your family life. When it comes to addiction, most people think about the most popular ones like drug and alcohol addictions. However, there are many addictions that fly under the radar.

One thing in this article that I agree about Is that social media have bad effect on the students’ study performance. Bonnie Roschmann writes, “The more media they consumed per day, the worst students they were. If students spend more than six or seven hours daily on social media then they wouldn’t have enough time to study because they have other things to do during the day such as eating, sleeping, so they are going to end up falling the class.

Are we becoming less human with the passing of each day? Have we become too dependent on technology, specifically social media? In this day and age, people have different views on social media. They question its true purpose and its effect on society as a whole. With that said, although there are many thoughts concerning the topic/trend of social media something that is undoubtedly true is that social media plays an active role in the lives of the majority of people. Whether in a positive or negative way, social media influences the lives of all people. However this paper focuses on the effect of social media on college students. It addresses both the positive and negative effects of social media on those in college; focusing on a student’s academic efficiency, social interactive skills, and overall productivity.

Jon Russell once said, “Social Media presents a huge opportunity for schools, universities and other educational organizations to reach out and connect with students and prospective students”. With no doubt, social media has influenced the way students are educated today. For those of you who do not know the exact definition of social media, the social media means ways of sharing information, opinions, images, videos using the Internet, especially social networking sites. Because of the Internet, people started finding ways to socialize through social websites and exchange information. Popular social network on the Internet such as YouTube became a sensation for me ever since I became a student in college. Today social media can be used for educational purposes. The ways social media is changing education has affected how the students express themselves, behave, and interact with each other.

In today’s society almost every individual has some type of social media, whether it is Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, or Twitter, People have accustomed to utilizing these types of social media and it has become part of their life and daily use. According to the essay “Students Addicted to Social Media” by the International Center for Media and Public Agenda, the study from the University of Maryland claims “American college students today are addicted to media” (Signs of Life in the USA 403). The university discovered that when these students are restricted from using media it is similar in terms of drug and alcohol addictions. During the study that the university conducted, students discuss how boring it is without media and how it gives them anxiety about not receiving information through social media. Other students claimed that texting and IM'ing gives them comfort and if they do not have these items then they feel alone and isolated from the world ( Signs of Life in the USA 404). Students are not the only ones who have an addiction of media but also parents and non-students. However, the International Center is accurate in some aspects and the responses students gave are very relatable which some people can agree with.

Although many people are addicted to the internet and social media, one girl experienced it in a rather harsh way. The now fifteen-year-old girl started “acting out” when she was just thirteen in the year of 2015. Her parents then turned off the service to her phone and took it away; but she would just buy a old or used phone from her friends, any phone she could get her hands on. In addition, she would stay up until 4:30 in the morning just looking at her feed, she also had multiple accounts for each app and would block her parents so they couldn’t see what she was doing or posting. Also, her social media addiction lead to the use of drugs and alcohol. At one point, when she was 13, the police showed up at her house in California, to inform her family that she was involved in a blackmail attempt, which included her nude pictures. Along with that she wrote a suicide note which she posted on her social media, had ended up on her parents phones, but she received treatment for “excessive social media use, substance abuse, and mental health,” (“ np).

Every day students show the addiction to social media. Social media addiction is when people cannot go a long time without going on social media. An example of social media addiction would be a kid constantly checking their snapchat every few minutes for long periods of time. Social media addictions is a very important and serious topic, which also comes with its effects on people. Some include, health risks to the brain, social issues, and behavioral issues.

However, these results are extremely positive, but we cannot allow our youth to become addicted to the technology as it poses a very significant threat. The technology should remain, in all intents and purposes, as a learning tool and shouldn’t allow for certain social media outlets to be used on them. If this occurs, the students will become distracted and unfocused because the very thing that aids their learning, could also be the very thing that distracts their learning in time.

The majority of college students are using their smartphones for social media. Though social media may help people staying connected, it is also a distraction. According to Thompson, “Today’s tools make it easier for us to find connections - between ideas, pictures, people, bits of news - that were previously invisible” (p.349). Thompson’s view of social media is that they help people stay connected with friends, family members, and other people who share the same ideas. However, drawn to social media, undisciplined college students are like a moth to a flame. Whether or not they are consciously aware of it, social media are making them distracted from studying. Even a professional writer like Thompson is not an exception. As a matter of fact, Thompson says he was “idly checking Twitter links” when he was distracted from his writing (p. 351). Equally, I sometimes get distracted while doing my assignments and send links to inane materials to a friend. Thus, social media can steal the precious time that undisciplined college students could use for

The study that was done by O 'Keeffe, and Clarke-Pearson, (2011) suggested that the onset of technological innovation has played a huge role that has affected the changes in psychological behaviors of adolescents that are mainly engaged in social media activities on a daily basis. Teenage pregnancies have been the outcome of the usage of some social media sites. Numerous students have gained access to multiple kinds of information and have therefore provided easier access to different kinds of people. The social media networks have opened up many doors especially for young students, and they have gained knowledge of content that is not well supervised concerning the parental guidance.

Feeling anxious, Sarah asked for her phone back so she could look at her Facebook notification. Her mom said no but she just kept on begging and begging for it back until her mom noticed… Sarah was crying over an electronic device. At that point she understood that her daughter was falling into the deep, dark hole of social media addiction.

Widespread use of internet has led to a kind of addiction. The present study examined the use of Internet and getting addicted to the social networking sites and on the whole its impact on intermediate level students. The sample comprised of 285 students out of which the addicts were pulled out. The tools used were questionnaire developed by Dr. Kimberly Young, the IAT which is a 20-item questionnaire that measures mild, moderate, and severe levels of Internet Addiction with its sociological impact. An additional questionnaire drafted at International Development Research Centre (IDRC) was used to gauge the behavioural, psychological and

What would people do if they could not access the Internet for one week? Needless to say, they would not do their jobs in a normal way because the Internet plays a big role in their daily lives. Today, human beings are living in the world of advanced technology. Many years ago, technology did not allow people to interact with others as it does today, so they had to go outside to meet their friends individually. Thanks to social networking sites, people can sit in front of their computers and Skype their friends for hours. In many ways, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have led to positive changes in the way people communicate and share information. However, students should reduce their time on social networking sites to one hour a day in order to avoid these sites’ negative effects, since these sites can ruin students’ abilities in school.

We decided to make this research because the students that are using social networking sites might become addicted and their attention for studying might be used for using these social networking sites.