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Researchers: Social Networking Can Be More Addictive Than Nicotine, Alcohol

What about heroin?

Reason Staff | 2.20.2013 1:08 PM

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For anyone who has quipped that they are hooked on social networks like Facebook and Twitter the latest research suggests it might be no joke.

The statistics are mind-boggling.

Those two networks alone boast well over a billion users between them. Every day, there more than half a billion 'likes' on Facebook and 350-million Twitter tweets.

It is perhaps no surprise then, that researchers from the University of Chicago found last year that social networking can be more addictive than nicotine and alcohol.

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