Study Shows Students Are Addicted to Social Media | News | Communications of the ACM - 4 views
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most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world. "I clearly am addicted and the dependency is sickening," says one person in the study. "I feel like most people these days are in a similar situation, for between having a Blackberry, a laptop, a television, and an iPod, people have become unable to shed their media skin."
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what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family
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they couldn't connect with friends who lived close by, much less those far away
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