Is he/she awake to ideate wittiy Facebook posts? Are comments and likes on your kids’ Facebook photos and activities delight and depress them often? There are some more signs that you considered Facebook enthusiasm are indicated as Facebook addiction by researchers of psychology of a renowned university. While you are wondering whether your kids’ social media keenness is crossing the fine line between normalcy and obsession, some researchers were working on this special project to identify and scale Facebook addiction.
What’s the story?
The researchers of Bergen University in Norway were researching on a project called “Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale” on the basis of students’ scaling of their own Facebook activities. They were asked to scale them with ratings from (1) Very rarely, (2) Rarely, (3) Sometimes, (4) Often, and (5) Very often. Cecilie Schou Andreassen, who heads the project Facebook addiction created a clear report on people’s increased dependency on Facebook with six warning symptoms. Read this eye opener – New Research about Facebook Addiction.
