For the out-of-control social media user
Do you think that you're addicted to social media? Why or why not?
Is there even such a thing as a social media addiction?
If so, what are its signs or symptoms, as well its effects?
And what about its interventions?
Also called Social Networking Addiction or SNA, social media addiction
is the latest form of addiction to have emerged as a result of technological
advancement brought about by the Internet. But even if it's considered
new in the realm of clinical sciences, it's actually an all too familiar
phenomenon in the behavioral sciences.
People are curious if their behavior as they relate with social media networking
can be classified as an addiction, or something more saliently
related to it. That begs the question: how can one not know that he or
she is addicted to something? Awareness is an important factor in
acknowledging a looming addictive behavior - something that online
pop tests cannot 'test.'
This book offers practical intervention measures in order to minimize the
possibility of you becoming a social media addict - or how to overcome
such an addiction, if you consider yourself as an addict. In the
end, this book seeks to inform, to educate, and to offer ways to help
young people out there realize that there's more to the world than
scrolling through their social media feed.
Thank you, and I hope you'll learn a lot from this book.
Alan D. Weber has held teaching positions at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic
Institute, Austen Riggs Center, and the Center for Advanced Studies of the
Behavioral Sciences. He published a number of books on human behavior.
He is the author of the bestselling "How To Deal With Depression".
