Facebook And Twitter Are More Addictive Than Cigarettes Or Alcohol, Study Finds -- FOX NewsA new study suggests that social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter are more difficult to resist than cigarettes or alcohol.
A team from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business recently conducted an experiment involving 205 people in Wurtzburg, Germany to analyze the addictive properties of social media and other vices.
Participants in the week-long study were polled via BlackBerry smartphones seven times per day and asked to report when they experienced a desire within the past 30 minutes, and whether or not the succumbed to that desire. They were also asked to gauge each desire on a scale from mild to “irresistible.”
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My Comment: I could not care less about Twitter and Facebook, but the children of my friends are certainly attached to these websites.
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