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LETTER TO EDITOR |
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Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 121 |
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Comments on: "Facebook addiction among health university students in Bengaluru"
Chinomso Ugochukwu Nwozichi
Department of Nursing, Babcock University, Ogun State, Nigeria
Date of Web Publication | 10-Apr-2015 |
Correspondence Address: Chinomso Ugochukwu Nwozichi Department of Nursing, Babcock University, Ogun State Nigeria
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/2278-344X.153640
How to cite this article: Nwozichi CU. Comments on: "Facebook addiction among health university students in Bengaluru". Int J Health Allied Sci 2015;4:121 |
How to cite this URL: Nwozichi CU. Comments on: "Facebook addiction among health university students in Bengaluru". Int J Health Allied Sci [serial online] 2015 [cited 2024 Mar 29];4:121. Available from: https://www.ijhas.in/text.asp?2015/4/2/121/153640 |
Sir,
The impact of social media on the lives of young people is still not well-defined. Several studies that have attempted to describe the effects of Facebook have produced mixed results.
The following comments are based on the article: "Facebook addiction among health university students in Bengaluru" by Ramesh Masthi NR, Cadabam SR, Sonakshi S. in Int J Health Allied Sci 2015;4:18-22. [1]
The article presents a lot of useful information on how Facebook has affected the lives of students of health-related courses.
Although the "Facebook addiction scale" was pretested, some variables do not have enough weight to be included as criteria for measuring Facebook addiction.
For example:
- Do you want people to like your status updates or photos?
- Do you get upset when someone puts up a rude comment about you on Facebook?
- Do you put up status update on Facebook?
These questions do not really describe the characteristics of a typical "Facebook addict" as a nonaddict could as well select the same options with the addicted ones.
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1. | Ramesh Masthi NR, Cadabam SR, Sonakshi S. Facebook addiction among health university students in Bengaluru. Int J Health Allied Sci 2015;4:18-22. |
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