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Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol
An anonymous reader writes "Checking a Twitter, Facebook or email account for updates may be more tempting than alcohol and cigarettes, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people regulate their daily desires. Researchers also found that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges than certain drug addictions, people are more likely to give in to their addiction to use social or other types of media."
also, checking constantly to see if anybody replied to my slashdot posts. also, looking for new articles to claim frist! addictive.
I can not press "submit" on this post. Really. I *can* not press submit. Really I can....
Back when I waited tables in a restaurants to pay for college, I can promise you me and the other servers were not taking Facebook breaks outside the back door.
yeah but phones, much less the internet, didn't even exist back then ;)
It's really efficient having no friends. Now, you know what I cannot resist, however? Lesbian porn.
The Social Media Twelve Steps
We admitted we were powerless over social media - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a better broadband connection can restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a All Knowing Server Admin as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless inventory of our posts.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our spulling erroz.
Were entirely ready to have The Next Thing Better Than Facebook remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Customer Service to remove our drunken posts.
Made a list of all persons we have stalked, and became willing to block them all.
Avoided making direct amends to such people wherever possible because it pretty much looks like even more stalking.
Continued to hide our personal baggage and when we were wrong to rise above the desire to ragequit.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with cute kittens as we understood Them, praying only for the power to not forward it.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to social media addicts, and to practice these principles in all our status updates.
So sleeping is an addicting activity and anyone doing is just giving into a base desire?
Don't know why this study did not include breathing, I know some air addicts that cannot stop breathing for more then a minute. They are so addicted they even do it in their sleep.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
I can quit any time I want!
Does this mean that social media will now be the blame for all the evils of society? Finally replacing D&D, and "violent video games."
Nope, it now means it will be taxed like tobacco and alcohol.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Underwear beat a city? WTF?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Now I really want a drink and a smoke.
Was there supposed to be a smiley on that, or have you been stuck in the basement THAT long?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
But then I went on Facebook to share the message, and suffered a relapse. Oh and I had to go harvest my farm as well.
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
I doubt she was referring to making friends.
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A sin tax error...
"Democracy." It's just a slogan.