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American medical discourse is chock full of addictions these days. There's video game addiction. Porn addiction. Gambling addiction. Internet addiction. And of course: Facebook addiction. At least, ...

Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers have developed a new instrument to measure Facebook addiction, the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. Are you a social media ...

Scrolling through your Facebook news feed for the 10th time today? Updating your status – again? Checking to see what your ex-best friend from high school is up to? Clicking through friends’ vacation ...

It is possible to get addicted to almost anything. The most obvious candidates are things like cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, and food. But anything which causes some kind of obsessive behavior in even ...

Norwegian researchers have developed a Facebook addiction test with a scale that likens users of the social network to alcoholics and drug addicts. And women, younger people and the socially insecure ...

In a small study of Facebook users in Poland, depression was one predictor of greater vulnerability to becoming dependent on using the social media site. So-called Facebook intrusion is similar to an ...

Facebook conducted secret tests to determine the magnitude of its Android users’ Facebook addiction, according to a new report published yesterday. Like a bunch of crash test dummies, users of the ...

Are you addicted to Facebook? Researchers have developed a new tool to measure Facebook addiction: the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. In January 2011, Dr. Cecilie Schou Andreassen performed a study ...

Friends on social media such as Facebook can be a great source of comfort during periods of stress. However, if they don't receive any support offline, stressed users are at risk of developing a ...

Facebook affects my productivity, my mental wellbeing, and my relationship with my wife, who isn’t too excited about my frequent checking. I need help. That said, I can’t (or won’t) just delete my ...

For many Facebook users, the urge to like a kitten video or snoop on a high-school flame is almost irresistible. As it turns out, this type of "Facebook addiction" may show up in the brain: A new ...