Social media addiction?

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Is there such a thing as a social media addiction? And if so, what can be said about it?

(Cs, NCs, and anyone else here are welcome to respond.)
 
As one in the psych field, I have to say that I do believe there can be an addiction to social media. It most often would take the form of someone compulsively checking social media in whatever form in order to relieve some internal anxiety. In other words, the person starts to feel they have no control over checking it or not. Of course it would be a psychological addiction and not a physical one, and it may border on (or outright be) OCD instead, depending on the symptoms.
 
People create Family outside of Family ,
It becomes an addiction because their new found family doesn’t seem to have all the hang ups their true family have , it’s all just fantasy ,
We cling to what we have in fantasy which we don’t have in reality …
If that makes sense ,
 
It depends. I use social media because I don’t live in easy distance of friends and family, I don’t think this is unreasonable. Now if you were ignoring your loved ones in favour of online strangers for long periods that could be more of a problem.
 
Kliska said:
As one in the psych field, I have to say that I do believe there can be an addiction to social media. It most often would take the form of someone compulsively checking social media in whatever form in order to relieve some internal anxiety. In other words, the person starts to feel they have no control over checking it or not. Of course it would be a psychological addiction and not a physical one, and it may border on (or outright be) OCD instead, depending on the symptoms.
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Indeed.
 
I use social media daily. I’m retired and take care of my elderly parents. My mother has Alzheimer’s so I’m home with them quite a lot. Social media helps pass the time. But I’m fine without it too.
 
Horton said:
I use social media daily. I’m retired and take care of my elderly parents. My mother has Alzheimer’s so I’m home with them quite a lot. Social media helps pass the time. But I’m fine without it too.
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Me too.

I like it for the news feed and to stay in touch with distant family members.

But besides that, I could do w/o really. Even participating in commentary on the news stories are so ugly…people cursing each other out for no reason other than, well, it’s the internet and no accountability and they can get away with it.

Not narcissistic and am annoyed by people updating new profile pictures every 2 hours. I find myself unfollowing practically everyone lol
 
I used to frequent a recovery forum, until a couple days ago when a forum admin decided to take offense to a tongue-in-cheek comment I made and banned me. It was my only outlet for support since I quit drinking six months, one week ago, and last night because I did not have my support network, I did relapse. I had not gone a day without it and couldn’t cope. It wasn’t because I got support there, or because anything on it taught me how to cope with my addiction. It replaced my addiction. Without the replacement addiction, I defaulted to my drug of choice over the past decade, alcohol.
 
Cassandra_Lyn said:
I used to frequent a recovery forum, until a couple days ago when a forum admin decided to take offense to a tongue-in-cheek comment I made and banned me. It was my only outlet for support since I quit drinking six months, one week ago, and last night because I did not have my support network, I did relapse. I had not gone a day without it and couldn’t cope. It wasn’t because I got support there, or because anything on it taught me how to cope with my addiction. It replaced my addiction. Without the replacement addiction, I defaulted to my drug of choice over the past decade, alcohol.
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Wow. How much time would you say you spent on that forum, typically?
 
Quite a few usually, mostly out of habit. But I did not know what to do with myself without that thing I always do.
 
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