This cartoon shows how person become physicaly and menttaly addicted to the media. People now are count on internet to socialized, entertain, study and shop. Therefore person's who become addicted to the internet has different routine lifestyle than others. From the moment they wake up till the end of the day, addicted people couldn’t move away from the screen of the computer.The hardest bottom is to log out from the website as image shows Internet takes people from their families, friends, works and lives.

Psychologist Discusses Facebook Addiction

The signs and symptoms of addiction to the social media especially Facbook that people should be aware and see counsel. Behavior problem shows the temporary success of quite then people couldn’t prevent themselves from their virtual life on internet. Younger generation are abuse the way of socialized be media comparing to older age of people. Therefore, advantage is littlie compare to the disadvantage of using these websites.

Daiagram

The picture illustrates how social media websites used by people. For instance, 28% Facebook's users, and 18% of Digg users are interested by news and the majority among them is Twitter which is shows 47%. While entertainment and video games are one of the reasons why logged into social media. Moreover, the diagrams show Myspace and Facbook are the websites that used to communicate by users. On the other hand, the least percentage which is no more than 12% of people who used these websites to tech purpose.

Reading Response post to " online articles"

There has been always debate about socialized by using media website recently. Social media has rapidly become the dominant means of communication throughout the world. Being online all the day is becoming part of young people's daily life to manage unpleasant feelings such as anxiety, depression, boredom, loneliness or due to low self-esteem. Therefore, young escape from their problem, unpleasant feeling or to avert reality to spend their time communicate with other people in social media websites. Losing themselves online can temporarily relief their feelings to engaged themselves communicating. Social media is accessible and quickest method to show and share our feeling at the same moment we desire to. Being virtually connected t o the internet is becoming emotionally connected in real lives. Therefore, youth connect their feeling when they are connect and disconnect to their feeling when they are disconnecting to the social media. Yet, they cannot feel their feeling unless they are connected to their devices. Texting by instant message, follow people by twitter, like what users do, listen to new music, being updated with virtual friends in social media websites has been increased now than a decade before. Facbook, Twitter and instant msg- have a great impact on youth's daily live. Youth can easily communicate and access their virtual friends in webs when they feel they need to talk to someone. Communicating with people from different age, race, gender and culture has a huge impacts on youth's behavior. Yet, it altered person's attitude and behavior when they adapt a new values and culture through virtual multicultural friends at media sites. Moreover, social media has the power to shape adolescence's thoughts, feeling, and action. Yet, as a human being, we also have the ability to act back on society with these gained attitude. Social media is the most significant agent on converted our impersonal relationships; therefore, person's presence is not necessary any more to make or break up a relationship. Because social media act as a mediator between people, it becomes more easily to control our relationships. Society, community, universities, students become more dependent on the internet; however, they wouldn't be addicted to the internet unless users have sign and symptoms of addiction. Of course for student's work, internet saves time, efforts and money when we search by web sites comparing to the time wasting reading books and printed out articles. Declined number of students who read books or printed articles are significantly declined comparing to the high percentage of them who prefer online reading. Nevertheless, the critical thinking that youth develop due to reading from book cannot be the same when it done by engine search. Therefore, negative effects of using media has a huge influenced on generation comparing to the benefits we gained. Addiction to the social media is new phenomenon that technology brought. Internet addiction has become the most addiction recently. As the online articles mentions that "social media meets the adolescence's need which could not find it their real lives; therefore, they spent all day on social media which effect on their mental and physical health". http://www.netaddiction.com))
Articles discovered side effect of using social media on our entire health, including problem and consequence associated with unusual time using on internet. The youth may aware of these sequences; however, they still socialized by media. Youth might manipulate their media addiction by decrease the time they spend on media, or they might be helped by professionals how are able to altered the addiction to their virtually lives. In" Social media magnifies Internet addiction" online article,(Dave Rhea)define what internet addiction and Rhea proves how people become addicted to the internet " Until recently, nothing has aggravated this compulsion to be digitally engaged" (Rhea). Moreover, addiction to the virtually socialized by social media has been described as compulsive behaviors which all as human being have it. However which is considered as an abnormal about this compulsive behavior is how we become addicted to social media " Compulsive disorder commonly refers to behavior that reduces obsession-related "( Rhea). We can't prevent ourselves to disconnect from social media when it meets our needs. What time youth spend on using internet and what the purpose of deal with, will determine if they are addicted or not. People might spend whole days on doing research and work; comparing to, people who spend all time every day to socialized by social media and they couldn't prevent themselves consider addicted. Addicted people turned their few minutes to hours connected, they suffered from the failure chances of trying to reduced the time they spend on social media. Addicted are completely isolated from their real family, friend, life and work to merge themselves in virtual convenient life as they build. Dr. Kimberly Young has likened internet addiction to addictive sign and syndromes at(netaddiction.com). There are some signs related to people who diagnosed as addicted which are developed kind of guilty feeling, pain in back and neck, dryness of eyes, instable weight wither gained or loss, neglected from their family, friends, jobs and their real social life. The survey on the website shows how increased number of people who become addicted to the internet to be a serious public health issue than before in the U.S. " A national study conducted by a team from Stanford University’s School of Medicine estimates that nearly one in eight Americans suffer from at least one sign of problematic Internet use" (Dr.Young)
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Citation:
Digital Demands: The Challenges of Constant Connectivity ( Sherry Turkle) P.g 373-376.
Beyound Words. Third Edition by John Ruszkiewicz, Daniel Anderson, Christy Friend.

Introduction

Nowadays people are becoming online all time every day. Wither they are seeking information, checking their emails, communication by social media or they might involving in virtual community games. However, our traditional way to communicate has been altered since technology invaded our lives. Scientists and media critics has been negotiate the connection between social media and youth's interpersonal relationships. Social media has been manipulate our lifestyle, relationship, career and the way of thinking to solve problem. Therefore, we should admit that youth slowly becoming addicted to the social website since we are unable to live without technology intervention. Has social media huge influence on youth behavior and attitude so far? what is the effects of social media on interpersonal relationship? Why young people cannot feel their feeling unless they connected to social media? What are the side effects of socialized by media comparing to the benefits we gained from these technology?  Should we considered people who satisfied their feeling by  using Facebook or Twitter as addicted?. If yes, then what the media addiction is? how frequent youth should logged in social media sites to be defined as internet addiction?.