American medical discourse is chock full of addictions these days. There's video game addiction. Porn addiction. Gambling addiction. Internet addiction. And of course: Facebook addiction. At least, ...

Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers have developed a new instrument to measure Facebook addiction, the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. Are you a social media ...

The #deletefacebook tag may have been trending in the light of various privacy concerns, but the evidence is that Facebook addiction is stronger than some like to admit. Back in September of last year ...

Are you addicted to Facebook? Researchers have developed a new tool to measure Facebook addiction: the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. In January 2011, Dr. Cecilie Schou Andreassen performed a study ...

Scrolling through your Facebook feed may seem harmless, but a new study in California suggests that when you do so, your brain reacts in a similar way to that of people who use cocaine and are ...

Hi, I'm Zack, and I'm a Facebook addict. Addiction is partly in the mind, and we can all be gripped by something that throttles everything else in our life. From social media to hardcore broadband ...

Facebook affects my productivity, my mental wellbeing, and my relationship with my wife, who isn’t too excited about my frequent checking. I need help. That said, I can’t (or won’t) just delete my ...

People find it hard to quit Facebook, even in the face of mounting privacy concerns or theoretically hefty financial costs. But even though it feels hard to stop scrolling, the jury is still out on ...

(Reuters Health) - In a small study of Facebook users in Poland, depression was one predictor of greater vulnerability to becoming dependent on using the social media site. So-called Facebook ...

Facebook conducted secret tests to determine the magnitude of its Android users’ Facebook addiction, according to a new report published yesterday. Like a bunch of crash test dummies, users of the ...

I've been Facebook-free for about six weeks, and I don't miss it at all. I stay in touch with my friends in other ways, and am out of touch with my acquaintances and "Facebook friends," which in all ...