Introduction
Just like drug, Facebook can be addictive in a way that it affects your life, education, word, socialization, family and other important things rather than liking, commenting and sharing to useless things we see on facebook. An American psychologist believes so. In fact, he even introduced a new term to describe such an addiction. FAD, or Facebook Addiction Disorder, is a condition that is defined by hours spent on Facebook, so much time that the very life of an individual is already affected (Mostly in work or school). It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from this disorder that is detected through a simple set of six-criteria. People who are victims of the condition must have at least 2-3 of the following criteria during a 6-8 month time period.
These are the 6 symptoms of FAD:
1.Tolerance: A person suffering from this disorder cannot live a day or minute without seeing his/her precious wall. If you are the type of person that can’t live a moment without opening your account then you should think twice.
2.Withdrawal symptom: If by any chance you don’t have the chance to login your facebook account and you feel anxious and depressed then you might have this kind of disorder. Withdrawal symptoms is normal to other kinds of addiction (such as to nicotine) and they tend to feel stressed out or the worse, they’ll do any possible solution to feed their hunger.
3. Reduction of normal social/recreational activities: People suffering from this disorder will have a visible reduction to their social activities, such as going to parties, talking to friends and family. They usually reject social and recreational activities in exchange for the fun-pack facebook experience.
4. Virtual dates: This is a new trend today, but this can be a symptom of FAD too, people with this disorder will just prefer to have an online conversation with their partner instead of going out to see a movie or have a dinner.
5. Fake friends: Facebook addicts normally add person they don’t really know, but isn’t this normal to other people? Well, yes but people with FAD have 8 friends they don’t know and only 2 known friends in real life, maybe because of the games they play on facebook?
6.Complete addiction: This a clear symptoms of addiction, when they met new friends they often say “I’ll see you on facebook” or when they met new people they first ask for their facebook account before knowing other details.
How can you fight it?
1. Admit it: The very first thing you need to do is to admit it, how can you fight a disorder that you can’t accept that you have? It would be stupid to have a chemotheraphy without cancer right?
Did you know? 41% of FB users are addicts
2. Ask your friends and family: asking the close people to you about how they feel about the amount of time you spend on facebook might surprise you. They might also give you motivation and reasons to stop your addiction.
3. Keep track of your facebook usage: After you decided to stop this craziness the first thing you have to do is to know how addicted you are.
4. Limit yourself: After you know everything you need to know it’s time to start the process, if you spend 10 hours a day maybe you can cut it to 5 hours a day first then 3 hours and so on until you can live a day without it anymore.
Different ways to limit yourself:
Software based: There are different softwares that can help you manage it; even windows have a feature where a certain account can access the computer in a specific time only. But ofcourse you need to help yourself do this, not cheating the system.
Facebook as a reward: Since you are still addicted to it, you can ask your parents to hold your laptop and just give it after you finished your homework or activities such as playing some physical sports and helping to household thingy. After you did all of this you can enjoy facebook now, and in the end you’ll end up to refuse to have it as a reward and avoid it completely.
Step away from PC: The machine itself that you can use for facebook is a big factor, try to go out to stay away from your computer so you can easily avoid from using it.
Clarify the role of FB to your life: Always think that facebook is a medium to connect you from people far away from you, and it doesn’t mean you need to disconnect your life from people around you.
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