Facebook mobile triggers addiction alarm

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Addiction alarm sounds as Facebook goes mobile

Asher Moses

November 4, 2010

Facebook has lofty ambitions to be on everyone’s mobile phone.
A Sydney child and adolescent psychiatrist says Facebook’s lofty mobile phone ambitions are exacerbating the problem of internet addiction.

Philip Tam, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Rivendell unit in Concord, said in a phone interview that social networking apps on mobile phones meant “we never get away from the reach of cyber space”.

“It’s always with us literally in our pocket 24/7 and for people without the self control that can be worrying,” he said.

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