{"id":14909,"date":"2020-09-24T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T10:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=14909"},"modified":"2020-09-24T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T08:07:14","slug":"facebook-addiction-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/facebook-addiction-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Telltale Signs of Facebook Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has become so much a part of our life now that with close to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/archive\/facebook-now-totals-901-million-users-profits-slip-296980\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a billion users<\/a> out there, one can easily throw a stone and hit a Facebook user. User engagement in Facebook activities, like updating statuses, posting photos, commenting, and \u2018liking\u2019 have also increased in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Given the accessibility and ease of use of Facebook, it\u2019s no wonder more and more people are addicted to the popular social networking site. You may ask, what\u2019s wrong if you use Facebook frequently as a means of entertainment or keeping in contact with your friends? Well, there\u2019s nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Facebook activities start interfering with your everyday life and become detrimental to your daily functioning at work or in school, you might have a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some telltale signs of Facebook addiction you should take note of.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/psychology-of-facebook\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: The Psychology of Facebook\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Psychology of Facebook<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/psychology-of-facebook.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-14652 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/psychology-of-facebook.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">The Psychology of Facebook<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAccording to Facebook's Newsroom, Facebook now has 901 million accounts (as of March 2012), with more than 500...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Over-sharing<\/h2>\n<p>At a time when many netizens are concerned over the issue of online privacy, it\u2019s strange to find that there are still a number of us who voluntarily share information about our private lives on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>It has perhaps a lot to do with the gratification of being acknowledged or approved by our peers. Need of such social affirmations by our friends in our network is a key factor that runs social networking sites.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/facebook-addiction-signs\/Over-sharing.jpg\" alt=\"Over-sharing-on-facebook\" width=\"1000\" height=\"791\"><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s no basis for me to say that sharing about ourselves is wrong because each of us has our own social needs to fulfill. What I\u2019m talking about here is the idea of over-sharing, of saying too much and then regretting what we said.<\/p>\n<p>When we\u2019re addicted to something, we\u2019ll do anything just to get a satisfying dose of engagement in the activity. So in the case of Facebook addiction, we may become unable to judge what\u2019s appropriate to share, allowing our desire to be heard to override our privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<h2>Checking Your Facebook Whenever Possible<\/h2>\n<p>This means checking out for any updates to your newsfeed or responses to your posts every time you have nothing else to do. In other words, the default choice for your free time activity is to be on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you do? You leave your Facebook open in the background, switching between work or assignments to the Facebook page every few minutes. Even when you are outside enjoying a drink with a friend, you log in to the Facebook app on your smartphone every now and thento check updates.<\/p>\n<p>As a result you get distracted in whatever it is you\u2019re doing, and you may find it hard to be fully present at the moment. Perhaps you may take a significantly longer amount of time to complete simple tasks, or your friends may complain that you don\u2019t pay enough attention to what they say.<\/p>\n<h2>Overly Concerned with Facebook Image<\/h2>\n<p>Have you ever spent more than fifteen minutes of your time thinking about what you ought to type for your status update? After you\u2019ve decided on what you should update and posted it, do you eagerly anticipate how others will respond to it?<\/p>\n<p>This is what it means when I mention your \u2018Facebook image\u2019. To some extent, we are all concerned over how we project ourselves to the rest of the world, even when it comes to our online presence.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/facebook-addiction-signs\/facebook-image.jpg\" alt=\"facebook-image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"865\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, sometimes it gets out of hand when you\u2019re always trying to think of something cool, humorous, entertaining, etc. to post to show how awesome a guy or gal you are.<\/p>\n<p>Not just that, once posted, you get restless while you wait for others to comment or \u2018like\u2019 what you\u2019ve posted and so you just keep checking and re-checking your Facebook to see if there\u2019re any new notifications.<\/p>\n<h2>Reporting On Facebook<\/h2>\n<p>Most of us have seen friends in our network who almost certainly never fail to appear on our newsfeed. It could be some status update, check-in, posting of their photos, and such.<\/p>\n<p>Their posts tend to be on very mundane matters, much like how someone reports to another what he or she is doing at any given moment. They report to you their daily routines (e.g., taking a piss), broadcast check-ins to uninteresting places like the street they live in, upload self-portraits, and such.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/facebook-addiction-signs\/reporting-on-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"reporting-on-facebook\" width=\"1000\" height=\"936\"><\/figure>\n<p>It appears to be an attempt to remind others that they exist. Either that or these people are just trying to make their offline life co-existing with their Facebook one.<\/p>\n<p>If you are one of these people, I think it\u2019s good to ask yourself the reason behind such \u2018reporting\u2019. To me, it seems to be a sign of obsession, as if you need to post something, no matter how ordinary or unimaginative, in order to relieve your anxiety of not doing so.<\/p>\n<h2>Spending Hours Browsing Through Facebook Every day<\/h2>\n<p>Spending about an hour or so daily looking through your newsfeeds and checking out profiles of your friends is still okay, but if it starts going beyond that, it\u2019s an indicator of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there\u2019s loads of content on Facebook like photos, games, and other interesting apps, but if you start using increasingly more of your valuable waking hours surfing aimlessly on Facebook, it\u2019s time to reexamine your lifestyle.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/facebook-addiction-signs\/browing-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"browing facebook\" width=\"1000\" height=\"810\"><\/figure>\n<p>The issue gets worse when you actually sacrifice your sleep to use Facebook. It\u2019s as if the number of waking hours you spend on Facebook aren\u2019t enough. Lack of sleep will undoubtedly affect your performance in school or work the next day, which is when Facebook becomes an addiction problem.<\/p>\n<h2>The mad rush to add more friends<\/h2>\n<p>For some users, Facebook addiction may manifest itself as an intense desire to add more friends. There is a perceived \u2018arms race\u2019 between you and your other friends to see who has the highest number of friends on their network.<\/p>\n<p>The keyword here is \u2018perceived\u2019 because you may think there\u2019s a competition, but in fact, there might be none (i.e., your friends could not care less about whether they have more or fewer friends than you). The contention on who has more friends may just be your personal quest to be seen as more \u2018popular\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, research done by psychologists from Edinburgh Napier University found that Facebook users with more friends on their network tend to be more stressed up when using Facebook. The more friends you have, the more you feel pressured to maintain appropriate etiquette for different types of friends while remaining entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the competition in adding friends may result in a vicious cycle of increasing Facebook-related tensions, resulting in worse addiction outcomes.<\/p>\n<h2>Compromising offline social life<\/h2>\n<p>As you get used to communicating on Facebook via messaging, sharing photos and posts, commenting and \u2018liking\u2019 others, etc., it may come to a point when you get more comfortable socializing online than offline.<\/p>\n<p>You become over-reliant on Facebook to fulfill your social needs and may start sacrificing the time spent on real-life meet-ups for coffee with your friends.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/facebook-addiction-signs\/compromising-social-life.jpg\" alt=\"compromising-social-life\" width=\"1000\" height=\"615\"><\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s not healthy. Let\u2019s face it; face-to-face communication is a far richer experience than communicating online where one cannot see non-verbal communication as in the body language, gestures, voice tones, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that text messages often get misinterpreted, resulting in misunderstandings. In the long run, your social life suffers because your communication is limited to Facebook and not with a real-life friend.<\/p>\n<h2>Overcoming Facebook Addiction<\/h2>\n<p>Looking back at the signs and symptoms of Facebook addiction, I realize I am by no means immune to it. Over-sharing? Check. Refreshing my Facebook newsfeed whenever I have the chance? Check.<\/p>\n<p>The only consolation I have for myself is that I don\u2019t do that on a regular basis; I simply fall into the trap every once in a while. That\u2019s not considered an addiction\u2026 I hope(?).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read a number of articles that offer tips on how one can overcome Facebook addiction, and most of these offer precise step-by-step solutions on how to address your issue.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/facebook-addiction-signs\/facebook-addiction.jpg\" alt=\"facebook-addiction\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tips like first admitting you have a problem, setting aside a fixed time to check your Facebook, turning off notifications, etc. are all legitimate. However, it might be more effective if we deal with the root of the addiction problem by finding out why you depend on Facebook so much.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because you\u2019re using Facebook to avoid dealing with some things, such as your work or personal issues at home? Once you know what the underlying issue is, you\u2019ll be more confident to manage your addiction. If there\u2019s none to be found, then maybe it has to do with habit.<\/p>\n<p>Put Facebook away for a while, go out, and experience the offline world by interacting with your friends face-to-face. You\u2019ll realize how much more wonderful that is than to stare at your newsfeed all day long. That\u2019s when change can begin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has become so much a part of our life now that with close to a billion users out there, one can easily throw a stone and hit a Facebook user. User engagement in Facebook activities, like updating statuses, posting photos, commenting, and \u2018liking\u2019 have also increased in recent years. 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