Facebook addiction is one of the most dangerous addictions on the rise. Social networking is fun till it does not enslave us. IT professionals, college students, Doctors, Engineers and many more are finding Facebook to be extremely addictive. An hour on Facebook is acceptable but if you can spend a whole day on Facebook, you are in for Facebook addiction.
Facebook & Facebook all the time: isn't this Facebook addiction? Yes that's Facebook addiction:
Wherever you go whatever you do; if you are a Facebook addict you cannot think of anything other than Facebook updates. Facebook addicts find it very difficult to live without Facebook they just want to see their updated Facebook wall, see the comments others have posted, see the updates posted by their friends, and of course pass comments on the Facebook updates of their friends. Facebook addiction is easy to get and difficult to leave. Let's see some reasons why Facebook becomes such an addictive thing.
What makes Facebook so addictive:
We all want to become heroes in our lives. We like showing off some hidden talents which we have. We like to satisfy our egos by updating our Facebook status and seeing as many likes as possible. Enter Facebook: upload anything and your friends are sure to find your friends and relatives leaving comments on your wall. And that's it: media attention makes you feel on top of the world and you feel like uploading things on your Facebook wall to see comments and likes soaring high and giving you adrenaline rushes.
Facebook addiction steals your time:
Time is money: so stealing time means stealing money. The whole world is losing a majority of its everyday time getting over-involved into Facebook activities. Facebook addiction is real dangerous when it starts interfering with your everyday life: I will explain how in the next section. Every time you upload something on Facebook your mind always wonders how your friends will react to it. The curiosity makes you log in and see the progress on your wall. If you are not carful Facebook addiction can ruin your life your career and also your family life.
Facebook makes the world look smaller; so grab your opportunity and show them the real you:
This is exactly where Facebook addiction sets in. Whenever we see something or read something we react to it. Whatever you upload on Facebook is sure to get like if not comments from everyone. We all love it when we see those comments and likes. It makes us feel that we are something really special. Once we see people liking our content we feel like uploading content again and again. We never know how this behavior makes us a Facebook addict.
Facebook addiction keeps you away from depression:
Facebook addiction does not keep you away from depression but makes you unaware of it. Because you are engaged in Facebook for a very long time the attention gets diverted from facts that make you feel depressed. The one who wants to run away from him-self gets indulged into addictions so that he can keep away from the depression which is haunting him. There are blog addicts also in this world who do nothing but blogging and get scolded from their family members because they know that blogging is no serious means of earning money. But the claims of big money made by other bloggers makes them feel that it could be true. Similarly Facebook addiction makes people crazy about attention stealing. Facebook addicts just love to see those messages and likes.
Facebook addiction can ruin your life:
Facebook addiction is very dangerous and harmful for students, moms, fathers and society alike. With so many headlines screaming about Facebook scams, Facebook can literally ruin a girl’s life or the society as a whole if there will be no measures taken to filter inappropriate content. Apart from that, Facebook addicts are always alive in a virtual Facebook world. Their mind is always waiting to see the comments and like on Facebook and they are always thinking about their next Facebook updates even when they are off-line.
Facebook addiction can spoil your family relationships:
If the husband or wife is a Facebook addict, the whole family is neglected. As a result there will be many relationship break-ups resulting from Facebook addiction. The best part is: addicts are blind and do not bother about the feelings of their family-members. They love to do whatever they are addicted to: Facebook.
Facebook addiction can ruin careers:
If I am not wrong it has already done this. There are people who are online on Facebook throughout the day with the help of their smart-phones. Anything new on their wall and their mobile alerts them. Facebook addicts do not agree that they are addicts; they just think that they love Facebook a lot. But the fact remains: a whole day long active Facebook connection makes you an addict today or tomorrow. You are in the middle of a meeting and your mind is still living in the virtual world of Facebook updates. Nothing enters the brain because it is completely full of Facebook fun. An hour on Facebook is fun more than two is over-involvement but more than that is "Facebook addiction".
How to get over Facebook addiction:
- Reduce the time you spend on Facebook.
- The easiest way of giving up Facebook addiction is to deactivate your account or delete it completely.
- You should spend only one hour on Facebook.
- Update your Facebook account only once in a day.
- If you have too many friends on your Facebook account it is time to build a new account with very few friends.
- Keep the number of friends in your Facebook account restricted to only those friends whom you know in real life.
- It is time to go out to meet friends. If you can connect with your friends through Facebook you will never bother getting up and going out to meet them.
- Family first, Facebook only in spare time: Update Facebook only when there are no family members around.
- Set a reminder which reminds you after an hour that you may become a Facebook addict if you do not sign out soon.
- Do not get over-involved with Facebook apps: they make you a Facebook addict even before you know it.
- Never chat on Facebook: this is one thing which makes every Facebook user a Facebook addict.
- Say a big no to chatting with unknown girls or boys just because you cannot do it in real life. Be practical: there is always a “someone” made for you. Stop trying to find him/ her in everyone.
- Stop living like a zombie connected with Facebook: go live your life. Be creative create something which gives you happiness. Learn music, arts, painting or anything which makes life more meaningful to you.
- Facebook addiction can kill the happiness of your life: remember this whenever your mind attracts you towards Facebook. Facebook is a monster which can eat your intellect and make you like a water buffalo sitting in a marsh.
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