Social media invades the bedroom
A survey of 1,000 Internet users, conducted by consumer electronics site Retrevo.com, found 48 per cent admit to checking Twitter and Facebook after they’ve gone to bed for the night. Forty-two per cent said they check and/or update their social media profiles first thing in the morning. Eight per cent of those older than 25 said they do it before they even get out of bed. And 40 percent of social networkers don’t mind being interrupted while they’re busy with other activities. Thirty-two per cent said a text was a welcome distraction during a meal, while 7 per cent said they’d even stop having sex to glance at an update. Though Internet addiction was left out of recent proposed updates to the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual, the survey authors suggest the habit-forming nature of social media bears a closer look.
“We’re not qualified to declare a societal, social media crisis, but when almost half of social media users say they check Facebook or Twitter sometime during the night or when they first wake up, you have to wonder if these people aren’t suffering from some sort of addiction to social media,” the New York Daily News quoted Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s Director of Community & Content, as stating. Read the full article
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