Facebook: Cigarettes of a New Milliennium Archives

Independence Day: Cutting the Cord with Facebook for A Full, Glorious Month

August 4, 2017 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

July 4th: Independence Day In my book The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness I spent a lot of time researching and writing about the rise of Facebook and its permeation across the global landscape. How the site operates today is radically different than how it was built, and the dark side of today’s […]

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Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 4 of 4)

March 16, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 4 of 4: Quitting Facebook & the Withdrawal Experience Doing something requires more physical or emotional exertion than doing nothing and quitting Facebook at the end of January proved no exception. While I had mulled the thought of ceasing use since the end of the year, once the seed to stop was planted […]

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Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 3 of 4)

March 13, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 3 of 4: Why People Get “Addicted” to Facebook All up, all in . . . is Facebook dependence an addiction? The short answer is no. Not yet. Medically speaking, Facebook overuse, obsession, or preoccupation is not considered (yet) to be a true addiction. While behavioralists work to gather more data, they face […]

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Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 2 of 4)

March 11, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 2 of 4: Why People Use Facebook Dr. Brent Conrad, a clinical psychologist for TechAddiction, points out that excessive Facebook engagement can disrupt normal behavior but is not (yet) a recognized clinical disorder. On the positive side, he says, technology tools such as Skype, Facetime, and Facebook allow us to stay in […]

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Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 1 of 4)

March 10, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Part 1 of 4: Why Facebook’s Appeal is So Strong I recently used a Time Magazine self-diagnostic program to analyze my historical Facebook use. In a matter of minutes, having tracked and backtracked through everything I had ever done on the site, here is what the app reported: I had belonged to Facebook for 1,877 […]

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