The Negative Impact Of Social Media's Six Degrees

A. When the first recognize social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It was beginning of the age where people now can not only upload their profile and make friends with other online users but it also the where we opened the Pandora Box in the digital world.

B. When internet become available to public in 1969 through the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), then followed by the introduction of the social media by 1997 has made our life a lot easier by making information more accessible to all and creating connections with different people around the world until to this day. However, those achievement doesn’t come alone where some people misused it benefit by spending too much time in front of the computer, so much that

According to HUFFPOST Healthy Living article written on 14th October 2013, a few recent neuroscience studies may give us a clue: It may be ourselves. Diana Tamir and Jason Mitchell at Harvard performed a simple study where they put people in their Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scanner and gave them a choice to (1) report their own opinions and attitudes, (2) judge the attitudes of another person, or (3) answer a trivia question, while they measured the participants' brain activity. The catch was that each choice was associated with a monetary payoff, which allowed the scientists to test if individuals were basically willing to give up money to

There are several method in order to treat those with the addiction where according to Luo, one of the method that are worth to use it are through cognitive therapy and motivational interviewing. A long-established protocols for talking to therapies for addiction can be worthwhile components of a treatment plan for Internet addiction. For example, cognitive therapy and motivational interviewing have been proven to be especially useful for changing unhealthy behaviours. Studies of people who received treatment for conditions like depression or anxiety did report "improvement of symptoms of Internet addiction" when the other condition was treated said Luo in CBS News.

C. Luo also stated another method, that is the treatments itself must have to work in their own cultural contexts, because what works for one group may not work for another. The Daxing Internet Addiction Treatment Centre in Beijing, China, for example, treats addicted teens with military-like exercise and discipline, as well as medication and other therapies, which may not go over so well in other