Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol 134
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from the friends-list-fix dept.
from the friends-list-fix dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Checking a Twitter, Facebook or email account for updates may be more tempting than alcohol and cigarettes, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people regulate their daily desires. Researchers also found that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges than certain drug addictions, people are more likely to give in to their addiction to use social or other types of media."
best not to start... (Score:5, Insightful)
...is what my mom told me about alcohol and tobacco.
So... (Score:5, Insightful)
Does this mean that social media will now be the blame for all the evils of society? Finally replacing D&D, and "violent video games."
Disagree (Score:5, Insightful)
Tax the hell out of social media and then see... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Tax the hell out of social media and then see.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Sleep is optional? (Score:4, Insightful)
Sleep is pretty hard to resist. If you don't do it, you die.
Not really the same as cigarettes?
Re:So... (Score:5, Insightful)
Does this mean that social media will now be the blame for all the evils of society? Finally replacing D&D, and "violent video games."
Man, don't give them ideas. Busybodies never seem to be busy enough.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C.S. Lewis
Usually that phony Puritannical "morality" is most visible when the subject is drugs, pornography, or controversial speech. At least on the Internet this sort of typecast personality is really going to have a hell of a time trying to enforce it, but still, I'd rather not see them try. I'd rather they do something more worthy of their limited time on this planet, like uproot their desire to run other peoples' lives by recognizing it as more evil than anything they'd rail against. Then maybe, just maybe, they can find their own fulfillment and witness the way that really living your own life magically takes away your undue concern for how others live theirs.
Re:Tax the hell out of social media and then see.. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a money game, not politicians trying to help people.
As a douchebag politician you get to stand in front of everyone with a straight face and say it's because those vices are bad for you and you want to discourage it. What you're really doing is using addictions to collect massive amounts of revenue. Even better, nobody can argue with you, or they're some monster supporting alcohol and nicotine addiction.
This is why a $3 pack of cigarettes in a major city can cost $12, while people still smoke.