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From a recent study of Cheng C. et al. (2014), internet addiction has been a
serious behavioral health problem in Asia. A total of 5,366 adolescents aged 12-
18 were recruited from six Asian countries; China, Hong Kong, Japan South
Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. They were task to complete a structured
questionnaire on the Internet use in the school year of 2012-2013. The internet
addiction was assessed using the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and the Revised
Chen Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS-R). Variation of internet behaviors and
addictions were examined. The results were, common participants were
smartphone users, ranging from 41% to 84% in South Korea. Hong Kong has the
highest number of adolescents reported to used social media on a daily basis
with a 68% average. Internet addiction is the highest in the Philippines, with a
score of 5% in the IAT and 21% in the CIAS-R. This results in the growing
problem of behavior towards younger users of internet and the social media that
are characterized by risky cyber behaviors which is now being a more common
problem with a need of necessary action to be resolved as soon as possible.
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In ‘Social Media: Defining, Developing and Divining’, Carr and Hayes (2015)
defined social media as internet-based channels that allow users to
opportunistically interact and selectively self-present, either in real-time or
asynchronously, with both broad and narrow audiences who derive value from
user-generated content and the perception of interaction with others.
Reference: Carr, C.T & R.A. Hayes (2015). Social Media: Defining,
Developing, and Divining. Atlantic Journal of Communication 23,46-65
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Social media platforms need active users who can create and circulate their own
content and they are called the active user. The active user is the provider of
sociality, content and data. Without them social media platforms won’t have any
functions or uses. These social media platforms are built around dynamic power
relationships for the active users to use to communicate with one another. The
active user is constructed and constrained within the rules of the platform and
they can only be active by following the terms set by the platform also. The
power of the social media platform is not grounded in the relationship of the one
who produces and consumes, but more fundamentally in who controls the
communicative spaces, processes, networks and flows of content. (van Dijck J.,
2011)
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Online social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
are familiar to most people and they are one of the most frequent necessities of
people in a regular basis. Online social networking by far has now been accepted
as a normal behavior. However, scholars have recognized that excessive and
compulsive online social networking has been striking similarities between drug
addiction and it has been condemned as a behavioral addiction.
There is also some evidence that SNS addiction is more prevalent in certain
groups such as teenagers and young adults and that they’re much like spend
more time being online to communicate with friends and loved ones such as the
other stuff they mostly do.
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From a study of Hou Y. et al. (2019), frequent social media usage does not
necessarily indicate social media addiction and does not always have negative
implication for a person’s mental health. A distinction between normal to overly-
excessive engage in social media is that when casual logging in become more
compulsive and uncontrollable. Most data gathered towards social media
addiction were mostly focused on Facebook addiction where there is association
in Facebook addiction and mental health issues (such as depression, anxiety and
insomnia) and also greatly affects the individual’s lifestyle and life satisfaction
which has been the trigger of negative impact towards Facebook addiction.
Reference: Hou Y. et al. (2019) Social media addiction: Its impact, mediation,
and intervention. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on
Cyberspace, 13(1), article 4. Retrieved from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2019-1-4
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1. Mood swings: the first stage, wherein the person feels more secure and
satisfied when using social media;
2. Relevance: when social media starts dominating the person’s thought to
their current activities which may be harmful;
3. Tolerance: increased time spent on social media, when a person is
looking for feelings that are associated with social media and is losing
control of the time spent with it.
4. Withdrawal: wherein anxiety kicks in to the person when he/she is not
connected to the Internet, with sleep schedule changes and eating
patterns and signs of depression.
Reference: Guedes, Eduardo; Nardi, Antonio Egidio; Guimarães, Flávia Melo Campos
Leite; Machado, Sergio; King, Anna Lucia Spear (2016). "Social networking, a new
online addiction: a review of Facebook and other addiction disorders". Medical
Express. 3 (1).
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