Facebook, home to over 1.11 billion persons. Everyday Facebook users spend an average of 20 minutes per visit, some much more than others. Those people we term addicts, Facebook addicts. They are more common than you think, and you might even belong to this broad category.
Over sharing
-All their thoughts are expressed as Facebook statuses and you spend a lot of time thinking about Facebook or planning for its use.
a) Over come by anxiety, nervousness or guilt if their Facebook status is not updated at least 3 to 4 times a day. You feel an urge to visit Facebook more and more.
b) Facebook statuses are updated from the bathroom on more than one occasions.
Spending Hours Browsing through Facebook Daily
- The shortest time spent on Facebook is about 60 minutes to 2 hours, daily.
-You become restless or troubled if you are prohibited from using Facebook
a) You're use of Facebook has had a negative impact on your life.
- Acquired over 600 Facebook friends, yet there is a feeling you need more (And half of them you have not actually met).
Overly Concerned with Facebook Image
-Constantly post pictures of where you are, what you're wearing or will wear, who you're with, what you are doing or eating (all in an effort to gather your Facebook friends' attention and have them rate your pictures via 'likes' and or comments, yet there is a feeling you need more).
-Changing profile pictures over 3 times in one week.
Checking Facebook Whenever Possible
-You use Facebook to forget about personal problems
- You have tried to cut down the use of Facebook without success.
Compromising Offline Social Life
As you get used to communicating on Facebook via messaging, sharing photos and posts, commenting and ‘liking’ others etc, it may come to a point when you get more comfortable socializing online than offline. You become over-reliant on Facebook to fulfill your social needs and may start sacrificing the time spent on real-life meet-ups for coffee with your friends. That’s not healthy. Let’s face it, face-to-face communication is a far richer experience than communicating online where one cannot actually see non-verbal communication as in the body language, gestures, voice tones, etc. It’s not surprising that text messages often get misinterpreted, resulting in misunderstandings. In the long run, your social life suffers because your communication is limited to Facebook and not with a real-life friend.
If two or more of the signs listed above describe your relationship with the social network, you maybe frittering away too much of your real life on your virtual one. If you're still unsure about your Facebook addiction, try this Facebook Addiction quiz.
If you decide you want to beat your addiction to Facebook, you could deactivate your Facebook account or delete your Facebook. Those are two easy fixes.
But other options may be better. Explore a few alternate strategies that can help you beat Facebook addiction first.
Sincerely,
You-Know-who
LOL you sound like a Doctor, but on a serious note, I think that all people who use not just facebook but other social networks for whatever reasons are some somewhat guilty probably even in the slightest way of at least on of the Symptoms you have listed
ReplyDeleteso true and its becoming very common among people.
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