Are We Addicted to Facebook, or Are We Just Addicted to Ourselves?
Category: WELLNESS
We might wonder how it came to be that we started meeting psychiatric diagnostic criteria for addiction, not for heroin or alcohol, but for a social media site. It can't possibly be the "like" function that makes us irritable and anxious when we can't check our feed. So to what, exactly, are we addicted?
By Judson Brewer, Contributor
Associate Professor, UMass Medical School, 2013-10-14