Social Media Addiction Literature Review

Critical Evaluation

Firstly, I want to refer that the title of the article accurately describe the research essay and it is based on online social networking and addiction. The authors describe it from psychological viewpoint because of their background. Daria J. Kuss and Mark D. Griffiths are psychologists and both of them are focus in the field of behavioral addiction, individual differences, gaming addiction, Internet addiction and personality theory. Internet addiction has become regarded as a novel psychopathology that may well impact on a large number of individuals. Too much usage can cause structural damage to the brain. Doctors determine that Internet addiction disorder is abnormal white matter integrity

On account of, people’s way of thinking about social networking sites and using it differs from day to day. For instance, according to Ann Goebel Fabbri “… social interaction through social media isn’t bad thing, from a personal perspective I have enjoyed posting blogs; it has given me an avenue of expressing an opinion where I hadn’t the opportunity in the past.” (Fabbri 2011). In contrast, an article in Psychology Today called Social Media Addiction: Engage brain before believing echoes Fabbri’s assertions, saying «it concerns me that, as a society, we are very cavalier tossing around the concept of addiction. Addiction is a serious psychological diagnosis based on specific and seriously life-impairing criteria.» (Rutledge 2010). That’s why we can conclude that the year of the publication of the article is out-of date therefore we have to take into account that it is not wholly applicable to any private practices. It is obvious that the research article needed to be revised and they spend months for it, which lead us to think that there had a lack of evidences and a lot more mistakes. The authors forget to present their limitations and also recommendations, which will be helpful for future research essays. The study is partially applicable for future practices since there are valuable facts about the online social networking and addiction but the surveys need to be done again. The references are enough to say that they studied a lot to make this research but anyway they have to update this research for their future working