<p>I have a now abandoned Twitter account that I signed up for last summer. I used it till September, and sporadically until December. I can't understand how people get addicted to it. It wasn't fun and I sometimes forced my self to be active on Twitter. Facebook I also got last summer. I like it because I can be in contact with family and friends I haven't seen in awhile. Its very nice to be able to stay in touch with people. I go on often, but not to the point to were my life is mainly about it. I'm on for maybe 20 minutes. So, what I don't understand is how can people be addicted to these sites, and have like 500+ friends, and they don't even know most of them. Whats wrong with making real friends in real life, and not over the internet. Cause from what I know, on the internet you can be whatever you want to be. Has our generation become so introverted that we need a site to make friends and become addicted to and stay on for more then 3 or 5 hours a day?</p>
<p>I’ve never used twitter, but I also don’t get FB addiction. It just doesn’t seem that interesting to me.</p>
<p>Lol I used to have FB addiction but then it went by by…</p>
<p>Twitter was dumb and I had no interest in it at all. Facebook, on the other hand, I go on frequently, but it’s not that big of a deal to me.</p>
<p>facebook is alright, I use it to talk to friends far away</p>
<p>I know, Facebook doesn’t look that good to be addictive to begin with. And Twitter is dumb.</p>
<p>Twitter is just a bunch of facebook statuses lol!</p>
<p>And facebook isn’t addictive, it just makes communicating with people easier.</p>
<p>Now TUMBLR, that’s addictive :D</p>
<p>For most people, they’re not addictive, they’re just used heavily. I usually text my status updates or tweets to facebook and twitter accounts whenever I feel like it, which is pretty often. When I actually get on my computer, I spend maybe 3 minutes total on twitter and keep facebook open in another tab as I do other stuff, going back to FB every now and then to keep up conversations or reply to statuses.</p>
<p>I don’t get Facebook addiction like the girls who post useless, unnecessary statuses everyday. ;)</p>
<p>I have a Twitter, but I very rarely use it.</p>
<p>I signed up on Facebook a few weeks ago this month. I added some friends, but really, there wasn’t much social interaction. It was boring, so I decided to delete my account.</p>
<p>Moreover, people from my school asked me for a friend request and I don’t even know them personally. They’re still complete strangers to me.</p>
<p>I’m somewhat addicted to Facebook, but I try to hide it. I post rarely, and mostly use it to talk to people or see what they’re up to (yes, you could say stalk). Besides being a great communication tool, as other people have mentioned, I like Facebook because it’s like free access to gossip, which everyone loves. You can check up on people who are stupid enough to post their private lives on the internet. Who wouldn’t love that?</p>
<p>They’re addictive the same way slot machines are addictive: rarely you are rewarded with something good (a friend is online and wants to chat, somebody has a really clever status, you get a new feature unlocked in a game, etc), but most of the time you get nothing for your time. trouble is, you don’t know which time will be the one that pays off, and if you don’t check constantly you’ll miss out.</p>