Complete the social media disorder scale. How did you score? What do you think about the items on the scale? Why do you think that different patterns are found across the world?

During the past year, have you …
• regularly found that you can’t think of anything else but the moment that you will be able to use
social media again?
• regularly felt dissatisfied because you wanted to spend more time on social media?
• often felt bad when you could not use social media?
• tried to spend less time on social media, but failed?
• regularly neglected other activities (e.g. hobbies, sport) because you wanted to use social media?
• regularly had arguments with others because of your social media use?
• regularly lied to your parents or friends about the amount of time you spend on social media?
• often used social media to escape from negative feelings?
• had serious conflict with your parents, brother(s) or sister(s) because of your social media use?

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When looking at the social media disorder scale, I do not do any of those things, I spend the majority of my time off of social media and rarely post anything. I didn’t really know that there would people who fall on the high end of the scale. I think that those who score on the higher end have some kind of addiction to social media or something like that. I think there are different patterns around the world because of many reasons; access to social media itself, laws regulating social media use, and their habitual tendency to use social media for comfort or other reliant reasons.