Will social media addiction become a mental illness in the next few years?
@ogbenishyna44 (1117)
January 25, 2026 1:00am CST
Just like gambling, excessive use of social media is fast becoming a mental illness worldwide. People want to use the social media to drive attention and some go go a long way by paying jobless individuals to troll and abuse perceived enemies just to gain attention. What can be done about this as social media owners tend to be helpless in putting up restrictions against the malaise.
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@ogbenishyna44 (1117)
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25 Jan
The United Kingdom is about to join Australia to ban people under the age of 16 from using social media.
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@jaylar (2896)
• Kingston, Jamaica
25 Jan
@ogbenishyna44 older folk grew up seeing and hearing reality ... many able to activate their brains and decides whether or not to believe something. With media being sued for fake news, lies, hoaxes, etc. meant some effort had to be made to uncover the truth.
Kids get on, read the earth is flat and believe it.
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@Laurakemunto (13693)
• Kenya
25 Jan
Yes as per now many people are suffering from it
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@jaylar (2896)
• Kingston, Jamaica
25 Jan
yes... further... the stupidity, the hoaxs which fill social media have mindless sheep following. It is amazing that in 2026 the kind of idiocy that is propagated is believed.
Social media owners pray to money so they don't care what is posted.
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@Laurakemunto (13693)
• Kenya
25 Jan
Yea the social norms are being neglected since people do care about money and money alone
@jaylar (2896)
• Kingston, Jamaica
25 Jan
@Laurakemunto if I told you the insanity people repeat from social media... stuff that an average brain would reject or seek real information...
For example...an English doctor wanting to have his own MMR spewed the 'autism' garbage as did his cronies. He was sued, as were his cronies. There were fines, jail time...removal of medical licenses.
This was real...
Yet... to this day people repeat his idiocy
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@Laurakemunto (13693)
• Kenya
25 Jan
Its slowly becoming a mental issue am afraid
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@Ineeddentures (15215)
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25 Jan
No it won't
It already is.
And it brings out the worst in people.
Social media owners are not helpless at all in putting restrictions in place
They like the trolling, the fights, the controversy,
Anyone thinking Social Media giants are helpless in stopping all this shite is naive.
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@ogbenishyna44 (1117)
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26 Jan
But it appears they care only about money these days.
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