Matthew Liptak | February 1, 2010
Contrary to popular belief of social media status updates, no one really cares where you are at a given moment or what you are doing. In my ongoing bantering of addiction to social media and obsession of certain social networking websites, this one topic must be examined more closely.
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Matthew Liptak | December 30, 2009
I read an article that defined the psychology of tweeting and Facebooking and buidling networks on social media websites. It compared these actions to that of compulsive shoppers, buying something just to satisfy that craving or rush of getting something new, even if they didn’t need it. Adding friends, becoming a member of millions of groups, tweeting tons of useless tweets is not to please the users network, but to satisfy this addiction of staying on top and accomplishing a daily task. I
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Tags: addiction, dependency, facebook, foursquare, social media, social networking, tweeting, twitter