Facebook Addiction
Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
Rationale
Facebook has become so much a part of our life now that it’s so prevalent across the world. With close to a billion users out there, one can easily throw a stone and hit a Facebook user. The amount of time users engage in Facebook activities, like updating statuses, posting photos, commenting and ‘liking’ posts has also been increasing with smartphones and 3G/Wi-fi networks becoming commonplace in recent years. Some people also find the time to enjoy some of the other fun entertainment offered on Facebook. As Facebook has become as ubiquitous as television in our everyday lives, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many people to know if they are addicted to social media.
Social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a clear way of analyzing the structure of whole social entities the study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.
The use of Facebook has increased rapidly. We are dealing with a subdivision of Internet addiction connected to social media, It occurs more regularly among younger than older users. We have also found that people who are anxious and socially insecure use Facebook more than those with lower scores on those traits, probably because those who are anxious find it easier to communicate via social media than face-to-face (Andreassen, 2012)
Facebook addiction have a larger percentage in our days, we have a issue to other social medias.And much more young or teens users which have a high effect in their life and more in their life stage they have been hooked up to social networking like facebook cause there communicating to their friends.
"Self-disclosure is extra rewarding. People were even willing to forgo money in order to talk about
INTRODUCTION
Rationale
Facebook has become so much a part of our life now that it’s so prevalent across the world. With close to a billion users out there, one can easily throw a stone and hit a Facebook user. The amount of time users engage in Facebook activities, like updating statuses, posting photos, commenting and ‘liking’ posts has also been increasing with smartphones and 3G/Wi-fi networks becoming commonplace in recent years. Some people also find the time to enjoy some of the other fun entertainment offered on Facebook. As Facebook has become as ubiquitous as television in our everyday lives, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many people to know if they are addicted to social media.
Social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a clear way of analyzing the structure of whole social entities the study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.
The use of Facebook has increased rapidly. We are dealing with a subdivision of Internet addiction connected to social media, It occurs more regularly among younger than older users. We have also found that people who are anxious and socially insecure use Facebook more than those with lower scores on those traits, probably because those who are anxious find it easier to communicate via social media than face-to-face (Andreassen, 2012)
Facebook addiction have a larger percentage in our days, we have a issue to other social medias.And much more young or teens users which have a high effect in their life and more in their life stage they have been hooked up to social networking like facebook cause there communicating to their friends.
"Self-disclosure is extra rewarding. People were even willing to forgo money in order to talk about