Facebook addiction looks similar in the brain to substance addiction, though without the impaired inhibition found in the drug-addicted brains. 5. How many photos are you tagged in? I don't know (If you're not sure, Click here to open facebook in a new window, then click 'profile') Why is Facebook addictive? If you can't go a day without checking your Facebook account, here are the reasons why you may already be addicted. Moved Permanently. The document has moved here. Share Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) is a term introduced by US phychologists for those who are addicted to facebook and their life is really effected by their. How to Defeat a Facebook Addiction. Probably the most widely used and known social networking site, almost half of Facebook's users visit it every day.David Disalvo. Internet addiction disorder (IAD), now more commonly called problematic Internet use (PIU), [1] compulsive Internet use (CIU), [2] Internet overuse, problematic. Researchers in Norway have published a psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction, the first of its kind worldwide. They wrote about their work in the April. “Okay, I admit it. I am truly addicted to Facebook,” said teenage blogger Heidi Barry-Rodriquez in 2007. In 2009, teen Neeka Salmasi described the social. Facebook has become so much a part of our life now that it's so prevalent across the world. With close to a billion users out there, one can easily throw a.