The Internet often makes me late…. That driving wish to update one more thing, or watch “just one more” video, laugh at some meme, or worse yet check Facebook.  And it’s not just class I’m late to: I’m late to work and social interactions with friends, EVEN WITH MY GIRLFRIEND. It’s a serious issue. What is this desire? Is Facebook some sort of playground where fun and exciting things happen? No. If you’re like me you just scroll through hundreds of vaguely interesting statuses looking at the random pictures that people put up. It’s a giant waste of time. And worse yet, the people that you don’t care about flood your news feed, leaving you no choice but to unfriend them immediately, although you’re not sure why you ever friended them in the first place. But why must we continuously check this meaningless website? 

I’ve seen a couple “Specials” on the news about Facebook addictions and problems in the workplace, John Tesh even did a piece on talk radio, which I admittedly couldn't find but here's a link to an article that he wrote about it. The University of Bergen in Norway recently released a study on Facebook addition. They came up with six warning signs that you may be addicted to Facebook. 

They also stated that younger users and women were more likely to develop an addiction to Facebook, while a more organized and more ambitious person is more likely to just use it as an integral part of work and networking. That being said, many corporations restrict the use of social media while at work because it is such a distraction.  What are we coming to when employers have to restrict access to a simple website in order to promote productivity?In a study done by Nucleus Research, an IT research company, they found that companies that allow employee productivity drops 1.5 percent in companies that allow full access to Facebook in the workplace. Is it some sort of dopamine addiction? What causes a person to constantly want to be updated on the posts of their "friends."