Social Networking Is Addictive and Can Lead to Psychological Disorders In the article “Social Networking Is Addictive and Can Lead to Psychological disorders”, the author explains how the internet impacts our lives. The addiction to our cell phones and social media is a growing problem that gets nowhere near as much attention as it needs. Nearly everywhere you look you see people with their faces jammed into their phone screens. In my evaluation of Larry D. Rosen’s article I will examine his main points as well as his claim that overusing the internet leads to smartphone addictions which causes withdrawals and interference in our everyday lives. Rosen claims that in the end, the disadvantages of social media and smartphone use far outweigh
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The year is 2018 and practically everyone above the age of 10 owns some sort of electronic device that can access the internet. The internet is all good and dandy until we start to abuse it. As with everything else too much of one thing isn’t good. In Rosen’s argument he gives multiple examples of people who got hooked on their phones and use the internet too much. Jim, a 32 year old computer worker pats his pocket constantly through the day to make sure his phone is still there. Jane, a trendy Facebook mom can’t go to bed or get out of bed without checking social media first. All of these examples probably sound a little too familiar for most of us. How many times a day do we compulsively pull out our phones and scroll through countless pictures and tweets that we’ve already seen a million times that day. Most of can’t even make it through dinner without snapchatting our food or tweeting our feelings. According to Rosen, all these things point towards an addiction. An addict as characterized by Rosen is someone who spends 40 to 80 hours a week on a smartphone. One of Rosen’s big points in his argument is that an addiction to the internet which is categorized as a behavioral …show more content…
According to Rosen the only good things that the internet has to offer that doesn’t sprout addiction is information gathering and relationship maintaining. When I first read that statement I disagreed because I couldn’t believe that that’s all the internet was good for, but after sitting on that idea for a bit I realised that he was right. Email, news, search engines, writing programs such as google docs, and GPS to name a few, are all things that have benefited our society greatly and contain aspects that fall into the two categories of information gathering and relationship maintaining. Rosen states that the consequences of the internet far outweigh the positive aspects. According to the author researchers have noted the similarities in the consequences of technology addiction to that of drug addiction, such as financial issues, job loss, and relationship breakdowns. While internet addictions are not officially or medically diagnosed, there are some resources such as the reSTART program that are becoming available to help people break these very real addiction. Many individuals enrolled in the reSTART program share a common thread of dropping out of college and putting their lives on hold to play video games. Out of all the consequences, depression is the most common psychological issue to develop from an internet addiction. Rosen goes into detail,
The year is 2018 and practically everyone above the age of 10 owns some sort of electronic device that can access the internet. The internet is all good and dandy until we start to abuse it. As with everything else too much of one thing isn’t good. In Rosen’s argument he gives multiple examples of people who got hooked on their phones and use the internet too much. Jim, a 32 year old computer worker pats his pocket constantly through the day to make sure his phone is still there. Jane, a trendy Facebook mom can’t go to bed or get out of bed without checking social media first. All of these examples probably sound a little too familiar for most of us. How many times a day do we compulsively pull out our phones and scroll through countless pictures and tweets that we’ve already seen a million times that day. Most of can’t even make it through dinner without snapchatting our food or tweeting our feelings. According to Rosen, all these things point towards an addiction. An addict as characterized by Rosen is someone who spends 40 to 80 hours a week on a smartphone. One of Rosen’s big points in his argument is that an addiction to the internet which is categorized as a behavioral …show more content…
According to Rosen the only good things that the internet has to offer that doesn’t sprout addiction is information gathering and relationship maintaining. When I first read that statement I disagreed because I couldn’t believe that that’s all the internet was good for, but after sitting on that idea for a bit I realised that he was right. Email, news, search engines, writing programs such as google docs, and GPS to name a few, are all things that have benefited our society greatly and contain aspects that fall into the two categories of information gathering and relationship maintaining. Rosen states that the consequences of the internet far outweigh the positive aspects. According to the author researchers have noted the similarities in the consequences of technology addiction to that of drug addiction, such as financial issues, job loss, and relationship breakdowns. While internet addictions are not officially or medically diagnosed, there are some resources such as the reSTART program that are becoming available to help people break these very real addiction. Many individuals enrolled in the reSTART program share a common thread of dropping out of college and putting their lives on hold to play video games. Out of all the consequences, depression is the most common psychological issue to develop from an internet addiction. Rosen goes into detail,