Prompt: Complete the Social Media Disorder scale. How did you score? What do you think about the items in the scale? Why do you think that different patterns are found across the world?

When I had taken the scale, I had scored a 4. That lands me in the risky usage stage, which I believe makes sense. For the items on the scale, I think that some questions could have causes that aren’t necessarily social media related but anxiety related, which can skew some of the results. The questions that made me think that were questions 5 and 9. As someone with anxiety and bad procrastination habits, that’s usually why I tend to use social media to avoid it, not because I’m addicted to social media itself. I believe different patterns exist across the world because of different cultures’ views on social media use. Some countries may not even have much access to social media, and that can also impact those patterns of social media usage.