By picking the best information, learning from it, and applying it, you will be far ahead of the people who fritter away their lives reading yet another article about Facebook, yet doing nothing.
In an attempt to get people outside "where only the birds tweet," the town of Ely, Minn., has announced a ban on social media, going into effect on Ap...
If you don't receive a text from your bestie this Friday night, it might be because she's pledged to unplug. On March 1 at sundown, participating ...
Have you ever found yourself asking, "Where did the last hour go?" when connecting with friends or colleagues in social networks? Social media is like a drug; just a little taste and we can't help but want more.
Not until I learn to remind myself of how little the opinions of others matter in deciding who I become in life will my social media addiction be entirely cured. It's not my use of the websites that trouble me, but my dependence on them to make me feel whole.
Of all the reasons employees abandon their work, wasting hours on social media, the most fundamental is the need to interact with others. The reality is that employees feel the need to socialize -- and will do so whether it's around the water cooler or online.
At the end of the digital day, understand that we live in a busy world that operates 24/7. Sometimes you just need to take a deep breath and go to sleep. You might feel better about it in the morning.
With work emails, personal emails, chitchat across open-office layouts and the multiple browser windows employees tend to have open, the workplace is ...
Although there's no official diagnosis for Internet or social media addiction, in my view, if it negatively impacts other areas of a person's life and use becomes more and more frequent, then at minimum it's a dependence, and at worst it's an addiction. Don't fear, though -- it is treatable.
Being disconnected from the Internet, whether it's for 48 minutes or 48 hours, was a refreshing slap in the face that life doesn't happen online: it's present, it's now, and it's going on with or without you.
Yes, folks, everywhere you look these days, you see people "shooting up" their technological "drug" of choice, whether emails, text messages, Twitter or Facebook feeds, YouTube videos, streaming movies and TV shows, or playing app games on their smartphones.
Many parents feel that screens have taken over their family's lives. While few could argue about the benefits digital devices offer, as parents, it's important that we establish guidelines for their use so they remain tools, rather than an endless distraction from real life.
Earlier this year, a study found that social media is more addicting than alcohol and cigarettes.
While people may be averse to a loss of privacy, they are even more averse to being left on the sidelines while the rest of their network happily rides off into the social sunset, tweeting and sharing along the way
We all need to disconnect sometimes, even when we think we don't. So next time you're on vacation and you see a beautiful ocean, enjoy it -- don't Instagram it.
If communication technology was created to enhance our daily lives, something has dramatically shifted along the way: More and more, we are altering our behaviors in service of the digital world.
We all know the addiction that afflicts so many of us, whether we admit or not. Whether your poison be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or all of the abov...
Recently I got a message from a student asking what techniques I would suggest for helping people limit their time on Facebook. Specifically, this student requested suggestions for NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) techniques that could help.
Clearly, the time is right for social media and TV to converge.
I used to write more, before I got addicted to technology. I was going through my old journals from elementary school, pre-cell phone, and saw that I ...
Got the Facebook fears? According to a recent study released by non-profit Anxiety UK, over half of the social media users polled said Facebook, Tw...
The social media studies have spoken and one thing is clear: we crave connection. According to one study, Americans have the urge to check their sm...
Our generation is unnervingly quick to pick up their smartphones and write the first thought that comes to mind via tweets and status updates. They either realize it's offensive once its posted for the public to see, or just don't care. Either way, there's a serious problem with these habits.
About the authors: Alexander is a junior at the British School of Chicago and John Mederich is a senior at Mather High School. Both are reporters for ...
So, is this a bad thing? I suppose some people could interpret anything positive that people return to often as addictive, but if "intense engagement and emotional enjoyment" is a bad thing than we have to worry more than just Facebook.
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