Sunday, February 20, 2011

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.)

3 comments:

  1. Its like OCD for Facebook! I feel like a ton of my "Facebook friends" have this I've always felt like it was weird when people made goodnight statuses.

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  2. Hahaha wow I mean I do some of those but I'm really glad I'm not these people.

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  3. Danggg, I guess it's safe to say that I have this disorder haha. That's really interesting but kind of scary... but Facebook is way too addicting to ever delete it

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