Why are humans addicted to social media?

Danah Boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, believes that “Most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, ... read more

Not all humans are addicted to social media. However, social media does promote addictive behavior in many people. And a great many people self-identify as addicts when it comes to their social media habits. Personally I can understand how using social media can become compulsive. read more

The social world is socially constructed through interactions between people: roles, rules, categorisations, stereotypes, normality, deviance are results of human sharing, the outcome of our being humans. read more