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TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION: HOW SOCIAL NETWORK SITES IMPACT OUR LIVES ("As…

- - - - While habit encourages use of technology, it can also create problems and lead to addiction. Habit is often preceded by use and satisfaction, with satisfaction as the most influential predictor.
    - - Five negative IT related issues were recently identified: technostress, information overload, multitasking, addictions, and technology misuse.
    - - The mental aspect might include individual characteristics of the IS clients such as internal differences of each person.
        
        The most common mental dimensions of addiction are harm and inability to self-regulate. Harm might include conflicts at home, poor work or academic performance, or even depression
      - The physical aspect might be features of the substance itself, or external features of a person’s social network.
  - - - The impact of technology on use outcomes has been measured; however, little research has focused on overall satisfaction with life and technology. This is an important area of research because technology is now ubiquitous.
    - - Some domains include family, work, friends, leisure, finance, and oneself. Some argue that these individual domains combine to impact overall life satisfaction, termed a vertical or bottom-up spillover. Similarly, these domains might not be mutually exclusive causing horizontal spillovers.
        
        For example, family life might influence a person’s leisure life either negatively or positively, causing the quality of life in one domain to impact the other domain.
  - - - In this research, the relevant delivery system is the SNS, which is trying to enable IS clients to connect with each other and share personal and public information. SNSs include websites that are communities meant to allow IS clients to interact in a social way, mimicking real-world social networks.
    - - Research on Facebook in all social sciences falls into five main categories: descriptive analyses of IS clients, motivations for use, identity presentation, the role of Facebook in social interactions, and privacy and information disclosure.
    - - Whether or not SNS use is an addiction, the impact of SNS on life outcomes is certainly important, however minimally researched. Some SNS clients feel that the social network is a burden because they are required to give social support to others on SNSs.
        
        This is a negative impact on life satisfaction as a result of SNS use. Facebook can also make IS clients feel more or less related to other individuals.
        
        On the positive side, some use a SNS to stay in touch with old friends. Many people use SNSs to help form positive impressions of themselves to their peers.
- - - - The term addiction is used because it is the most prevalent term across all research; however, this research recognizes that it is a particularly negative connotation that might be interchangeable with dependence, problematic use, or bad habit.
- - - - Social influence was adopted from the well-tested Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology measures.
- - - - The reliability of constructs shows how consistent the measurement of the construct is and should have a Cronbach’s Alpha greater than 0.7 and composite reliability greater than 0.8.
- - - - Internet addiction, when first being discussed, was absolutely labeled as a concern (i.e. Pinnelli, 2002); however, the pervasiveness of online access might be shifting this negativity. One researcher suggests that the combination of the digital native generation and ubiquity of technology is signaling a paradigm shift for computer use (Vodanovich et al., 2010). Technology use is undergoing a paradigm shift from use when needed, to constant use