Volume 24, Issue 2
The use of Social Networking Websites is a New Addiction?
Abstract
The use of social networking websites, fixed and mobile internet, has been placed in a situation of global explosion such a degree where the user behaviour is raising some concerns in the mental health community. The article shows the attractiveness of social networks and their consequences. In order to reduce and even eliminate the disorders that sometimes cause the misuse of social networks offer some recommendations to follow, like training of network access, application of codes of conduct and codes of best practices and patterns of use.
Keywords
social media, DSM 5, personality disorders, internet addiction, behavioural addictions