Students are addicted to social media

According to research from the University of Maryland, American students are so addicted to mobile phones, social media and the internet that the students shows withdrawal symptoms if they have to do a day without social media.

The investigators asked 200 students to abstain from all forms of social media for one day. After 24 hours many of them showed signs that correspond to those of people are drug and alcohol rehabilitation, such as fear and greed and they could not function without their social relationships.

The students complained the most about the need to send SMS messages, chat, mail and to use Facebook. ‘Text messaging and IM, gives me a constant comfortable feeling’, wrote one of the students. ‘Without these two luxuries, I felt very alone and disconnected from my life’.