Argumentative Essay On Social Media Addiction

Social media has been gaining an outstanding growth and popularity in the last decades, there are in fact over one billion users worldwide. Simultaneously, the issues caused by it, namely, depression, social awkwardness, and so on, have been increasing constantly as well. The human kind is becoming addicted to social networks, and 30% of the population makes use of it for not less than three hours a day. For the former reason, scientists and psychologists have been wondering whether social media is as much of a drug as any other, and how it should be treated. First of all, we have to contemplate whether social media addiction exists or not. In order to do that, we have to think about how many people make use of it and what reverberations it has on them. According to the Australian website “Business Insider”1, the engagement index in social network has recently reached 1.2 billion active users; but what occurs in all those faithful users’ brains while they are surfing the net? Sean Luo2, psychiatrist and researcher at Columbia University, said that not only he estimated that 1% of internet users need treatment, but also that social media addiction is similar to that of other substances, such as drugs, tobacco, or alcohol. In fact, after someone has been a user of social media for a while the urgency to use it starts to surge often. The

Considering that internet addiction is not a medically recognized disease, an actual treatment does not exist; yet, there are various ways to improve the situation. It could be as simple as trying to spend less time in front of computers, and turning off the internet connection. Although, it could be difficult to do for those people who are already addicted. In such cases the solution is for people to realize that they have a problem and seek for help either from family and friends, or from psychologists in the worst