Are You Addicted to Social Media? Trump's Addiction to Twitter!!

 Lame Duck President Trump is addicted to Twitter (see site and video below).

I just finished watching a documentary on Netflix, the Social Dilemma. This is a documentary-drama hybrid that explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

After watching this film,  I decided to search Wikipedia and here's some excerpts that I found relevant and informative.

"There are many ways that an addiction to social media can be expressed in individuals. According to Andreassen and colleagues, there are four potential factors that indicate a person’s dependence to social media:

1. Mood swings: a person uses social media to regulate his or her mood, or as a means of escaping real world conflicts
2. Relevance: social media starts to dominate a person's thoughts at the expense of other activities
3. Tolerance: a person increases their time spent on social media to experience previously associated feelings they had while using social media;
4. Withdrawal: when a person can’t access social media their sleeping or eating habits change or signs of depression or anxiety can become present.
5. Conflicts in real life: when social media is used excessively, it can affect real-life relationships with family and friends.

In addition to Andreassen’s factors, Griffiths further explains that someone is addicted to social media if their behavior fulfills any of these six criteria:

1. Salience: social media becomes the most important part in someone's life;
2. Mood modification: a person uses social media as a means of escape because it makes them feel "high", "buzzed", or "numb";
3. Tolerance: a person gradually increases their time spent on social media to maintain that escapist feeling;
4. Withdrawal: unpleasant feelings or physical sensations when the person is unable to use social media or doesn’t have access to it;
5. Conflict: social media use causes conflict in interpersonal dynamics, loses desire to participate in other activities, and becomes pervasive;
6. Relapse: the tendency for previously affected individuals to revert to previous patterns of excessive social media use.

He continues to add that excessive use of an activity, like social media, doesn’t directly equate with addiction because there are other factors that could lead to someone’s social media addiction including personality traits and pre-existing tendencies.

Turel and Serenko summarize three types of general models people might have that can lead to addictive social media use:

1. Cognitive-behavioral model – People increase their use of social media when they are in unfamiliar environments or awkward situations;
2. Social skill model – People pull out their phones and use social media when they prefer virtual communication as opposed to face-to-face interactions because they lack self-presentation skills;
3. Socio-cognitive model – This person uses social media because they love the feeling of people liking and commenting on their photos and tagging them in pictures. They are attracted to the positive outcomes they receive on social media.

Based on those models, Xu and Tan suggest that the transition from normal to problematic social media use occurs when a person relies on it to relieve stress, loneliness, depression, or provide continuous rewards."

So are you an Internet addict? What Platforms are you addicted? Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Instagram? E-mails? etc...

The above article also reminded me of my previous articles on Internet Addiction as follows:

https://theintellectualmigrant.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-you-suffering-from-facebook.html

https://lifeinus1960present.blogspot.com/search?q=internet+addiction

Meanwhile enjoy this photo from my album

My banana Plant growing well in my Backyard- October, 2020
 and my pineapple guava harvest this year

*Here's an article of proof that Lame Duck President Trump is addicted to Twitter.

https://theconversation.com/is-realdonaldtrump-addicted-to-twitter-85704

Trump Dopamine Addiction to Twitter-The Most Insecure Man in the World.

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