Facebook Addiction Disorder. Real?

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This article questions the reasons behind FAD. Questioning if FAD is actually a mental health concern. Also, if the term FAD made by modern psychologists is simply just a way to define our fascination with the social network. The Article describes how Facebook includes something for everyone and that it is only human nature to get carried away on the site.

This was the only article that I could find about any opposition towards FAD. Even in this article it still supports FAD on some occasions towards the end but the beginning you can tell that the writer still questions if FAD is a true concern or not.

I do support the article when it explains about the human nature to get carried away with Facebook, but I do believe there is a sense of being addicted. There have been many cases that I have read where people access Facebook multiple times a day. Check it in the morning before they brush teeth, and check Facebook before the go to sleep. During a work day in office many have complained of checking Facebook multiple times a day, about 5 times or more in one work day. This seems to be a problem of being addicted because many can't perform to their upmost ability being sidetracked on Facebook. Just like any other drug, the symptoms keep you from your top performance and can ruin your life. Some cases involve ignoring family members. One woman ignored her daughters plea for help on homework. To me ignoring your daughter over something can be  sense of an addiction disorder. I have also read where psychologists have had multiple clients come in and talk about being to drawn and strung to Facebook and to me these cases and stories tell me that Facebook addiction is real and has to be dealt with.

Fighter Jet gets shot down by libyan rebels

Thought it would be cool to post something different and interesting other than Facebook. Recently the civil war broke loose in Libya and this is footage of a fighter jet from Gaddafi's army. The rebels shot it down and it is crazy how we can see this today right at home, without being at war. Anyways check it out, tell me what you think.

Growing up too Fast?

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This Article talks about how Facebook is growing massively large in just the last 8 months. The article said that it has produced a million new jobs in the last 8 months around the world. It recently reached its 100 millionth user and is already getting closer to the 200th marker. The article also talks about how Facebook has broken the social barrier between families. That this one woman who recently joined Facebook has already found cousins in Zurich, Hong Kong and New York that she never knew and prob. never would if it wasn't for Facebook.....

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0303/Charlie-Sheen-on-Twitter-How-much-more-damage-can-he-do


This is an article about the recent news of Charlie Sheen. Its pretty interesting because when he made a twitter account he had over 1 million users in 25 hours. According to the Guinness book of world records, he broke the record of most users in the shortest amount of time. Its about the cancellation of the show Two and a Half men and what Charlie Sheen has to say about it.

Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD)

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facebook-addiction.html

This article is pretty interesting. It talks about a disease called Facebook Addiction Disorder.
Some of the things that are listed are pretty true and scary. There are also statistics about a survey leading to the percentage of users that check facebook before they brush their teeth. Here is the list...

• You wake up in the morning, and first thing you do is log onto your Facebook account.
• You spend more than an hour on Facebook - at a stretch or in short episodes over regular intervals.
• You and your siblings converse through Facebook wall and messages, even though you stay in same house.
• You can't seem to stop thinking about Facebook updates and comments when you are offline.
• You check Facebook for updates and comments after every hour at your workstation or on your cell phone.
• You look forward to get home in the evening so that you can see what is happening in cyberspace (on Facebook to be precise.)
• Your Facebook wall is full of status updates, comments, and applications that you just used.
• You can't go for a day without using Facebook, and even this thought makes you go into sort of depression.
• You give priority to Facebook over your commitments in professional and personal life.
• And lastly, your day ends with you checking Facebook for that one last time and bidding people 'good nite' through your Facebook status update. (You may even get an urge to wake up at middle of the night to see whether anyone has commented on your 'gud nite' status.)

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-23/health/ep.facebook.addict_1_facebook-page-facebook-world-social-networking?_s=PM:HEALTH

This link addresses the problem of being addicted to Facebook. The writer talks about a mother that is way too addicted to Facebook and how that affects her life. Her child asked her for help on homework but she could't because she was way to busy on Facebook. Really? It also says that this mother checks her Facebook about 10 times a day, right when she wakes up and before she goes to bed. The big shocker was that she actually ignored her daughter for help because she was too busy on Facebook. To me this is taking it too far and once you start ignoring the people around you, especially family, you have a problem. Some questions I have is how many hours do people spend on Facebook a day? How has that affected other peoples lives? How many times does the average person log on Facebook? You can surely argue that if these numbers are too high something has to change. You can't live your life on Facebook.

Essay blog

So, I finished my essay yesterday and overall I'm pretty happy with it. I thought I did a good job evaluating my topic and I hope I get a good grade. I thought the essay was fun and interesting. Writing about something that is so well-used in our lives was pretty easy to write about. I enjoyed writing this paper and it took little time. I knew so much about it that I had to do no research. I wish every essay was like that. haha