Social Networking Site Addictions

By Madison, Megan & Bibi

“When you can stop you don't want to, and when

you want to stop, you can't...”

-Luke Davies, Candy

                

The Basics Of Social Networks

Signs and Symptoms

How & Where to get help

Topics

The Basics of Social Networking

Networking has been around since before email and Facebook.

The media we know today started in the 1970’s. With different and much slower versions of what we have today

The History of Social Networking

Social NetworksBookmarking SitesSocial News Media SharingMicrobloggingBlog Comments and Forums

The Types of Social Networking

Places on the internet where you can connect with people

Social Networks

Places where they allow you to save, manage and organize links to various websites around the web

Bookmarking Sites

Allows people to post various news, items or links for people to vote on

Social News

Allows you to upload and share various media such as pictures and videos

Media Sharing

Focus on short updates

The most popular is Twitter

Microblogging

Forums allow members to hold conversations by posting messages

Blog comments are the same except that they are attached to a blog and the discussions are usually about whatever is on the blog

There are many different types of this

Blog Comments and Forums

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Signs Of Social Networking Addictions

Always feel the urge to check phones or social networking sites every few minutes.

The constant Checker

The person shortens phrases and words

The vowel hater

Going on a social networking site to forget about you problems and your grades and life style are affected by your addiction.

Dependent

You tend to freak out if the website is down or if you haven’t been on the site in a period of time.

The freak-outer

How To Get HelpTreatment

If you are addicted to Facebook here’s what you do: Try Facebook block

software Get help from your

friends Deactivate Facebook Delete Facebook Limit yourself

if you are addicted to Facebook:

Treatment

Where you can go to get help:◦Hospital Programs◦Get help for friends◦Allow your family to

help

Social Media Addiction Symptoms and Treatment

Social media has impacted the world in positive and negative.

Treatment of social media addiction can be difficult, but it is not impossible

Treatment is like for any other addiction. Medication maybe necessary. There help addiction people to find new ways to cope the time up.

Recovery from Addiction through Social Networking websites

Some of the popular sites you can go on include:addictiontribe.comintheroom.comsoberrecovery.combeatingaddiction.com

These social sites normally feature blogs discussion broads, galleries, links to the latest news, articles and useful resources on addiction recovery program