Social media addiction may be a behavioral disorder during which teens or young adults become enthralled by social media and are unable to scale back or cease their consumption of online media despite clear negative consequences and severe drawbacks. While many teenagers engage in some sort of online media on a day to day (including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Vine, Snapchat, and video games), teen social media addiction is characterized by the mixture of excessive media consumption, an increasing reliance on social media as to how to feel good, and an inability to prevent or curb this behavior despite suffering losses in friendship decreased physical social engagement and a negative impact at college.
The term addiction can often be used a touch too liberally, and it’s important to differentiate addicted behavior from usage. Not only are the overwhelming majority of teenagers on some sort of social network online, but quite half spend nearly all of their time somehow connected to the web. It’s not realistic to condemn all of them as addicts.
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