Are You Addicted to Social Media?
How many times have you checked your Twitter or Facebook feed today? For 13% of the American population (and 1% of the world), social media distracts from work and other enjoyable activities so much that they their brain is affected. Columbia University researchers believe that Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) causes the same structural and functional brain abnormalities as substance abuse. Still, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) haven’t yet added IAD to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
You may be wondering if there is a difference between smart phone addiction and social media addiction? Absolutely. Social media addicts will check their accounts from their smart phone, as well as their desktop computers, and they spend a much larger amount of time on these social channels than the average person.
