{"id":30976,"date":"2026-02-23T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30976"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:40:43","slug":"are-you-addicted-to-social-media-how-to-recognise-it-and-deal-with-your-non-stop-scrolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30976","title":{"rendered":"Are you addicted to social media? How to recognise it and deal with your non-stop scrolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/02\/23\/619d71c3-8b92-4a91-8fdd-6fe25f37d817_16b1c988.jpg?itok=4ZfNtceq&amp;v=1771835260\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Social media addiction has been compared to addiction to casinos, opioids and cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While there is some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause the latter, there is no doubt that many people feel like they cannot escape the pull of Instagram, Snapchat, RedNote and other platforms.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The companies that designed your favourite apps have an incentive to keep you glued to them: they can serve up ads that make them billions of dollars in revenue.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Resisting the pull of the endless scroll, the dopamine hits from short-form videos, and the ego boost and validation that come from likes and positive interactions can seem like an unfair fight. For some people, \u201crage-bait\u201d, gloomy news and arguing with internet strangers have an irresistible draw.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Much of the concern around social media addiction has focused <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">on children<\/span>. But adults are also susceptible to using social media so much that it starts affecting their day-to-day lives.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dr Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist and the medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University\u2019s School of Medicine in California, defines addiction as \u201cthe continued compulsive use of a substance or behaviour despite harm to self or others\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3344332\/are-you-addicted-social-media-how-recognise-it-and-deal-your-non-stop-scrolling?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media addiction has been compared to addiction to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there is some debate among experts about the line between overuse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7190,45,20,16407,8080,16408,811],"class_list":["post-30976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-addicted","tag-deal","tag-media","tag-nonstop","tag-recognise","tag-scrolling","tag-social","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}