You don’t have to look far for warnings and admonitions regarding the use of social media, and its effects on our psyche are well-documented. Everyone’s talking about it. If you search “negative effects of social media,” the first link is to a listing of academic articles from the scholarly side of Google. From time to time, a post crosses my digital path. I click, I read, and then—inevitably—I have an anxiety-filled debate with myself about whether I should purge my Facebook account or not. When I did some poking around to write this post, I discovered that psychological researchers from Norway have even developed a scale for measuring Facebook addiction. (I won’t say whether I took their test or not…)

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