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  • Hey there and welcome to Life Noggin.

  • It's pretty hard to tell me and Triangle Bob apart when you zoom in on our heads.

  • Ya know cause our animator didn't give us faces!

  • You humans are quite a bit different though!

  • You have so many awesome facial features that really set you apart.

  • So much so, that you even made an online book of all your faces!

  • It actually seems like many of you spend a lot of time on there.

  • Does that mean you're addicted to Facebook and social media?

  • Let's find out!

  • We should probably start by seeing how much time people spend on social platforms.

  • After looking at a few different sources, it seems like the average person spends about

  • two hours a day on social media.

  • Over your lifetime, this could add up to about 5 years!

  • According to one study, those two hours a day are mostly spent on sites like Facebook

  • and YouTube, averaging about an hour and 15 minutes between them.

  • Hopefully they're watching Life Noggin!

  • Twitter didn't get as much love, averaging only about a minute a day.

  • That all seems like a lot of time, but does that mean it's an addiction?

  • Well, according to the American Psychiatric Association, addiction is a complex condition

  • of the brain where a person has compulsive substance use despite there being harmful

  • consequences.

  • People with addiction tend to have an intense focus on what they're addicted to, to the

  • point where it takes over their life.

  • What makes it so hard to break an addiction is that it can change the way your brain is

  • wired, giving you harsh cravings that make it difficult to stop.

  • Studies of brain imaging have even shown changes in areas of the brain that relate to judgement,

  • decision making, learning, memory, and behavior control.

  • So is this what's happening with Facebook and social media?

  • It's hard to say for sure.

  • Social media is so new, that it's difficult to compare it to the substances that we usually

  • include when talking about addiction, like alcohol and tobacco.

  • That being said, we /are/ starting to give more credit to an addiction that might be

  • pretty similar: video games.

  • That's because the American Psychiatric Association includes Internet Gaming Disorders

  • as disorders that requires further research, but that can result in clinically significant

  • impairment or distress.

  • In the past year, the World Health Organisation has also added Gaming disorders to their International

  • Classification of Diseases, which is used by medical practitioners around the world

  • to diagnose conditions.

  • The World Health Organization's classification is a bit more decisive than the one from the

  • American Psychiatric Association, but both give credit to video game disorders being

  • a real problem.

  • Now, online video games are obviously not the same as a site like Facebook, yet they

  • do have similar social aspects.

  • It's possible that in the future we'll see health organizations also classifying

  • social media as a type of addiction or disorder.

  • Still, sites like Facebook do have quite a few qualities that make you want to come back

  • to them.

  • Through constant feeds and giving you push notifications on your phone, social media

  • sites try their best to keep you on their app or website.

  • Google and Facebook further their reach by also being commonly used to sign into other

  • sites.

  • Social media sites also seem to have a significant impact on how you feel, furthering your connection

  • to them.

  • According to a recent study, after removing positive posts from the feeds of over 680,000

  • Facebook users, people made less positive posts and more negative ones.

  • When negative posts were removed from their feeds, the opposite happened, suggesting that

  • emotions can be contagious.

  • No matter what, whether something is an official addiction or not, that doesn't mean that

  • it won't have problems.

  • If you feel like you're spending too much time on social media or that it's taking

  • away from areas of your life, then it might be a good idea to use it less or take a break.

  • So how much time do you spend on social media? Do you think you're addicted to it?

  • Let me know in the comments below!

Hey there and welcome to Life Noggin.

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ソーシャルメディアはこうやって中毒になるように作られている (This Is How Social Media Is Made To Be Addicting)

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    Evangeline に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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