Close your Facebook page if you left it open. This February 28 celebrates World Day Without Facebook. If you suspect that you have any social media addiction in your home, now is the perfect time to test your level of “cyberdependance” to this community site. And if necessary, “detoxify” yourself.
Why a World Day? Facebook has become so pervasive in everyday life that it has become the number 1 reflex when arriving at the office or at noon at his lunch break. Out of habit (or excessive curiosity), you like to watch the latest photos and videos of those around you, the latest posts relating happy adventures, funny or trivial anecdotes. But you recognize it, sometimes it leaves you with a weird, unpleasant feeling. A fleeting emotion of gloom or frustration assails you … Facebook’s fault?
A “detox” cure for “Facebook addicts”
Here is all the question. The debate around Facebook (does it make you happy or depressed?) Is raging as studies increase on the impact of excessive site traffic. There is no shortage of arguments for and against, opening a Pandora’s Box: it could help detect mental disorders, it is useful for making calls (like this man who was looking for his biological mother), it would influence the behavior of adolescents … (read also: the 10 effects of social networks on health)
The other question concerns addiction itself: to speak of addiction may seem exaggerated to the ears of the most moderate users, but the phenomenon of addiction does exist. Researchers in Southern California (United States) even concluded in Psychological Reports that addiction was comparable to the effects of cocaine on the brain. Facebook addiction would even be stronger than sex !
Therefore, the steps to be taken to fight against this viral dependence would be the same as for all other addictions: cognitive-behavioral therapy, hypnosis, acupuncture, etc. it’s about doing his digital detox. And it finds more and more candidates.
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