How can we solve social networking addiction?

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    Recently, there are blooming rate of people for getting addicted to the social network such as Facebook, Twitter, PC etc and the impact of it is tremendous.

    So, how can we solve or even minimize the problem of this addiction?
     
    It can be an is a problem for some people, that they become legitimately addicted to use of social media, but it's not at all widespread or common in any way.

    A lot of it boils down to an older generation who doesn't understand the core function of social media (Being social) and labelling the significant use of social media in society as symptoms of addiction.

    I suppose a way to solve it in that case is to educate people on
    A: responsible use (Not particularly just for addiction, problems like misuse of social media or lack of carefulness are actual issues)
    B: What social media is used for, and how it benefits society and individuals
     
    gimmepie said:
    I honestly fail to see how people being more connected is a bad thing. Especially in the troubled and turbulent times we live in.
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    Social media can be stressful because someone might feel that they always need to check it for "fear of missing out" (FOMO). It's not bad to want to be social, but always feeling pressured and oversocializing can have bad effects, too, particularly if it comes from an obsession or compulsion which one finds hard to resist.
     
    Johnny said:
    This is a person problem. It is very especific. Some people feel pressure about food and other essentials. This is not a social media problem.
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    I get what you're saying, but it feels to me like social media and the people who use it don't do much to address the problem it has inadvertently created. Increasingly phones are becoming the all-in-one device that will do almost anything and there is pressure on everyone not only to own a phone, but use it whenever possible. Since the phone is also where lots of people do their social media stuff you can't ever get away from it because you use it to read e-books, order take out, find directions, play a game, or whatever. Social media didn't, on its own, create the problem, but it created fertile ground for existing problems to grow in new ways. And in general lots of "personal" problems have social aspects, like depression, which can be caused or made worse by one's work/life/etc. situation.

    Anyway, how to combat it might include making sure that everyone has access to professional help that they can afford (a.k.a. free mental health services) and that the rest of us also educate ourselves on the dangers or pitfalls of overusing social media.
     
    make the outside world less mentally taxing for people with poor communication skills, disabled people, mentally ill people etc, since a lot of these people are 'addicted' to social media as a way to cope with the stress & psychological damage the non-internet world can inflict (yes i'm aware the internet can be just as bad)

    but that's not possible, right? so it's not possible to fix 'social media addiction'? i still don't see the problem with being attached to social media anyway i've never understood the concept
     
    Social media addiction would have the same problem as any sort of addiction really: it prevents you from carrying out a normal life via distracting you from everything else that's important for you to do.

    But there's two questions that need to be asked first:

    1) What is the official medical definition of addiction?
    2) Do these people actually meet this definition and could in fact be diagnosed with an addiction problem?

    Because it's possible that the people who are being claimed to be addicted to social media might not actually be, much in the same way that people claim to have OCD or ADD (and the number of other conditions people claim to have) but don't really have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or Attention Deficit Disorder (or the other conditions they might claim to have). If it's this and not legitimate addiction....well, you just have no self-control and need to work on that. Or that's just how you spend your free time. If it's legitimate addiction, then people should be given proper medical treatment.

    Who is making the claim anyway that people are addicted to social media, and what do they have to back this claim up? Cuz I kiiiiiiiiiiinda think it's just people who don't like how prevalent social media is these days cuz it's not how they're used to the world. Social media is just the new norm of society, much like how television became a completely normal and commonplace part of life years ago.
     
    If it's affecting someone's life in a significant and negative way and they don't know what to do to help themselves then I don't think it matters if it's a clinical, medical instance of addiction. They'd need help either way. If it's some other issue then the social media use is the symptom instead of the cause, but there's still something causing the problem.

    I dunno. I just think that when someone tells you that they're ill in some way, that they think they have a problem, it's good to take them at their word and try to get them help or have a professional look into it to see how severe the issue is and what might be done about it. It's not easy for some people to admit they think they have problems in the first place and I don't like to discourage people to seek help because there is an assumption that what's a problem for them isn't a "real" problem.
     
    making the assumption this is most happening with kids and teenagers...
    Be better parents?

    if you don't pay attention to what your kid is doing online and you are not aware of the fact they on such websites all day everday aka becoming obsessed.... if only you were aware, you could tell them to go and do something else more healthy like i don't know , go play outside with friends?​
     
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