Posted on 06/21/2010 11:39:20 AM PDT by bs9021
The Twitter Drug?
Deborah Lambert, June 21, 2010
When 200 University of Maryland students were asked to blog about their experience of giving up social media outlets for 24 hours, their reactions, ranging from misery to anxiety and frustration, were similar to drug addicts’ withdrawal symptoms, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
One student reported that the normal routine of “texting and sending instant messages” provided a “constant feeling of comfort” without which the student felt “quite alone and excluded from my life.”
The study results showed a high level of addiction to all types of media, said study director Susan B Moeller, adding that what students found most difficult was “losing their personal connections,” since “going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
We’ve had crack babies, crack berries, and now we have twitter twitfits!
It’s a good thing that none of us are addicted to FreeRepublic like that...
Twitter is for “Twits”.
If the shoe fits.......
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