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Review Article | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/2688-7517/068
Prof. of Personality and Social Psychology Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
*Corresponding Author: Samah K. Z, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Citation: Samah K. Z., (2023), Social Media Addiction among Adolescences: A Brief Overview About Recent Findings, J. Addiction Research and Adolescent Behaviour, 6(2) DOI:10.31579/2688-7517/068
Copyright: © 2023, Samah K. Z. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of The Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Received: 15 April 2023 | Accepted: 01 May 2023 | Published: 09 May 2023
Keywords: addiction; social media; social media addiction symptoms; teenagers; conscious socialization
This is a brief overview article about social media addiction; what is it? What is the difference between its addiction and common addiction ones? What is the difference between internet sites and social media ones, the reasons and symptoms of addiction, then final conclusion for teenagers?
Addiction is any psychological or physiological dependence of an organism on a drug. Originally the term used only for physiological dependencies, where the drug altered the biochemistry of the individual; such as continued doses. (Reber, S.A.:1995:12).
Social media are the web sites that one interacts with others through the World Wide Web. Addiction here is a metaphoric term that used when one becomes dependent on using such sites in an increasing time increased gradually, and feels worried and anxious if not to use them daily, as they become like drug doses which change biochemistry of the inside body.
Social media sites, as: Facebook, what are App, Twitter, Tiktok, Instegram, Messenger, and cyber relationships.
Why teenagers are the biggest customers of social media?
The adolescence stage is a formative period in one's life. Personality is still under formation, self-image and self-esteem formation affected mostly by others, especially by mate groups.
Recent studies findings showed that:
1) Receiving likes of social media activate the same circuits in the brain activated by eating chocolate or winning money.
2) The brain responds to social media in the same way to real life connections, with a release of dopamine; a neurotransmitter that creates feelings of reinforcement.
3) A review study in the journal of cyber psychology showed by Facebook addiction scale that Facebook addiction shows the same signs and symptoms of drug, alcohol syndrome.
4) A study exam the link between Facebook and depression showed that social media addiction can negatively impact self-esteem. www.newportacademy.com
5) Recent study conducted in Egypt in 2021 showed that social media use addiction increases among adolescences causing sleep quality troubles and negative life satisfaction. (Masoed, E.S. and others: 2021: 69-78).
What are social media addiction symptoms?
Social media addiction is a form of internet addiction in which adolescents are compelled to use social media in excessive amounts. Teens that are addicted to social networking are frequently unnecessarily worried with it and motivated by uncontrollable need to use it. Signs of social media addiction effect mood, perception, physical and emotional responses and behave in psychiatric disorder. According to reports about 12% of teens on social networks suffer from this type of addiction. (Masoed, E.S. and others: 2021: 69-78).
48% of teens use social media, 62% of them use it daily. The use among teens went up from 31
Teenage time is a period of personality formation, which means that it is a time of shaping the character by socialization. Social media may act as a strong effective way of socialization especially with the absence of parent’s rule in their children lives.
Simply, parents can avoid negatively impact of social media on their children lives by keeping close eyes to their teens, to alternative their use to significance positive impact, instead of addiction manner.
It is a matter of conscious parental socialization as well as the whole community conscious socialization. To prevent future generations from lose, as well as the future of community as well; the more conscious socialization, the more balanced community.
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