When social media was first becoming I became addicted right away. Coming home from school and checking myspace and Facebook I was always on top of what was happening. I got a phone a could years later and that is when my addcition truly strated.
The latest IOS update for apple tracks your screen time from week to week and lets you know how much time was spent on each app. My weekly total is 14h 3 min on social media. looking at this each week makes me question my addiction to social media. That is when I started to look at addiction with social media.
I found out that social media addiction is written in the DSM-5, meaning this is not just a made up thing. After doing research I found an interesting article “The Social Media Disorder” found at https://www-sciencedirect-com.trmproxy.mnpals.net/science/article/pii/S0747563216302059 . Reading this I now that I personally do not have a problem with social media but it amazes my that a phone can be more than just an addiction but cause other problems.
HAving a social media addiction could mean deeper issues such as low self esteem and depression. A big thing that causes this is the FOMO people are facing from social media. They wish they were someplace they are not or doing something else. It also cause people to be more fake in order for people to like that online personality. causeing them to forget their true sence of self, therefore leading to low slef esteem and depression .
Knowing these things I am going to try and lower my social media time each week and focus on the things in front of me. I hope more people are realizing how bad too much social media can be on a person and how to realize when they have had too much.
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