Addiction to Social Networks

Most people are absolutely hesitant to talk about the word addiction, or address by some as an addict. The term addiction for some is associated and linked with a negative meaning. But there are many kinds of addiction such as shopping, drinking, gambling and computer games. Despite the harmful effect to other people, the bad effect contributed by the user himself to his/her health, social life and mental statement.

Some are spending longer time on the computer as part of their job and most of the technologies are particularly new every second. The term “social addiction” is always seen on news and headlines on paper and television. A lot keep on patronizing social media because of online games, online friends and chat. But some people lost their job and relationships due to online addiction.

Ask yourself, how many hours do you spend your time staring at your computer than talking to human? Taking care of your social needs with online interaction rather than a face to face meet up. Student nowadays, instead of talking to each other prefer to post it up on social networking sites talking about their feeling and thoughts.

How many of us are wasting valuable time in social media sites like facebook, twitter or Instagram? Waiting for someone to re-tweet my tweet or react on my post on walls or even just mention my name. Fighting over social media addiction should start with ourselves. Try to realize that you can do anything and accomplish anything without sitting in front of the computer the whole day. Allow yourself to check your emails or tweets for not more than 15 minutes a day. Discipline is the only key to overcome social media addiction.

Although social media can be a help in term of business productive tool, it can equally play and contribute a negative role if you lack of discipline, not being control of usage of different social media networks. Addiction is something that interferes to our life and being part of it sometimes. Time will come where mankind can do almost everything with the help of technology and still one thing will remain impossible, releasing the addiction on technology.