New research has revealed that many users of social networking is so dependent on technology that if you do not have access to their mobile devices, or if you do not update their statuses on Facebook, developed symptoms identical to those that have drug addicts in rehab.
In a scientific experiment that was conducted in several countries called Unpluged, volunteers were asked not to open your e-mail and do not write text messages, not update Facebook and Twitter for 24 hours, and even their access to newspapers or any other source information was banned, writes ITProPortal.com.
The study was conducted in cooperation with as many as 12 universities around the world. The main conclusion of the survey is that most patients developed symptoms that can be found in people whotried to quit smoking or leave the drugs .
As part of the study, volunteers were asked to keep diaries of water every day about how they feel and they could only read the book.
Dr. Roman Gerodimos, a lecturer at Bournemouth University, said in a statement to the British Telegraph that "the extent that we use some of these modern technologies and new media are changing us. " According to him, many participants in the study described to feel "restless".
This is not the first time to investigate the effect of "social networking" on addiction. In July 2010. The one British study of Lightspeed Research has shown that more than one fifth of women in Britain regularly checks his Facebook profile in the middle of the night.
In a scientific experiment that was conducted in several countries called Unpluged, volunteers were asked not to open your e-mail and do not write text messages, not update Facebook and Twitter for 24 hours, and even their access to newspapers or any other source information was banned, writes ITProPortal.com.
The study was conducted in cooperation with as many as 12 universities around the world. The main conclusion of the survey is that most patients developed symptoms that can be found in people whotried to quit smoking or leave the drugs .
As part of the study, volunteers were asked to keep diaries of water every day about how they feel and they could only read the book.
Dr. Roman Gerodimos, a lecturer at Bournemouth University, said in a statement to the British Telegraph that "the extent that we use some of these modern technologies and new media are changing us. " According to him, many participants in the study described to feel "restless".
This is not the first time to investigate the effect of "social networking" on addiction. In July 2010. The one British study of Lightspeed Research has shown that more than one fifth of women in Britain regularly checks his Facebook profile in the middle of the night.
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