Kudos to the editor who thought that one up.
I cannot begin to tell you the insight I gained from this. Can you believe there are people that sit on Facebook all the time? Can you believe people would rather stare at their computer screen and leer at the human zoo that is social media than interact in the real world?
“Last Friday, I had three clients in my office with Facebook problems,” said Paula Pile, a marriage and family therapist in Greensboro, North Carolina. “It’s turned into a compulsion — a compulsion to dissociate from your real world and go live in the Facebook world
The funny thing is… remember when it was all about MySpace addiction and before that AOL Chatrooms. I guess you know a company / media thang has jumped the shark when therapists are no longer accepting patients for an addiction with your brand associated with it.
Social Mode 
Its no surprise that so many people out there are addicted to Facebook. American society is very cold, cynical, discriminatory, hateful and impersonal. A large percentage of American adults have no close friends or confidants. In the real world, its “every man for themselves”. Facebook fills a void in people’s lives. It makes people feel better about themselves. It makes people feel connected to others in a suppressed, uptight antisocial society filled with inevitably awkward social relationships and interactions.
Facebook also brings out the pettiness of the dirty high school cafeteria that still exists in the psyches of grown men and women. It becomes a popularity contest. However, those individuals with the most facebook “friends” have the worst addictions.
Personally, I think Facebook is very juvenile. I’ve noticed that alot of older folks who grew up before the internet/technology revolution do not have problems with online social networking addiction. I, myself, remember simpler times when people gave out there home or work phone numbers and the most disgusting perverted hardcore pornography wasn’t readily accessible to eight year old kids with a few mouse and button clicks. For shame.
Facebook Addiction can be considered a real issue. It is a compulsion and feeds on the same foundation as Reality TV shows. In terms of Facebook, we are watching people in our network and allowing them to watch us. Recently I completed a fictional book titled “Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts.” I collaborated with the New York Daily News and used real life articles to draw comparisons to chemical addiction. Learn more about the project on http://www.TheFacebookAddiction.com . Download a free promotional ebook, “A Brief Guide to Social Networking Addiction”, from http://www.thefacebookaddiction.com/downloads/SNA_Guide.pdf.