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I was lucky enough to attend a high school that required its students to have majors. My sister, who is six years older than me, attended the same high school and majored in computer science, so we had a computer in the house since I was ten-years old. I remember getting a book, which contained countless programs written in BASICA. In order to play the games, I had to copy the programs and execute them in the computer. It seemed like an easy typing exercise, but turned out to be a total nightmare. Essentially if one word or character is off the program wouldn't run. The first application that I attempted to run was a ping pong game. That was an early lesson in debugging code.
Although, that episode mentally scarred me as a child, I continued with Computer Science throughout high school and college. As a hobby, I also did some creative writing when I was younger. Fast forward about 10 years, Computer Science turned into a career and Creative Writing turned into two books ("Ice Cream Melts" and "A Souvenir For My Mom").
We are now in 2009 and Social Networking has become an Addiction with Facebook leading the way as the drug of choice. I thought it would be a cool idea to combine fiction and social networking so I recently completed a book called "Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts." The book shows parallelisms with chemical addiction and social networking addiction. I did two things to make it mirror reality:
1. I made myself an actual character in the book who starts a group called Social Networking Anonymous or S.N.A mimicked from Alcoholics Anonymous or A.A.
2. Collaborated with the New York Daily News and used real life articles.
Here is where the Information Technology background helps. We created an interactive blog, which allows everyone to write about their Social Networking/Facebook Addiction stories. Actually, all books that I write have an interactive blog component, which can be found at http://www.IceCreamMelts.com/blogs. The next step in our "EVIL" plans is to give all Authors the ability to create interactive book-based blogs on our IceCreamMelts.com platform. At the time of this writing I have my pinky in my mouth and my neighbors can hear the echoes of a sinister laugh.
Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu, Author of upcoming book, Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts. Free eBook, A Brief Guide to Social Networking Addiction Website: http://www.thefacebookaddiction.com
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Nnamdi G. Osuagwu, Toni Lane, Jeff Frake, Robert Blage, Ellen Kane, Jennifer Towers, Joel Smith aka Johnny Rocket, Michael Sandelli, Natasha Harrington, August Stone, Zoe Mecklin, and Carrie Reed
A Brief Guide to Social Networking Addiction
Social Networking Addiction is a mental illness centered around a dependency of online 'FRIENDS' or online interaction on social networks. Social Networking Addicts are unable to control their tendency to be logged in and participating on social networking websites.
What are some characteristics of Social Networking Addiction?
Some of the most common characteristics of Social Networking Addiction are:
* A feeling that being online is the only way to be noticed by the world at large. The longing for another post, update, or chat session (otherwise known as 'SNEAKING') before they sleep. A strong anticipation to being logged onto their social network of choice and seeing what everyone in their network is doing.
* Episodes of logging onto their social network randomly while in the middle of something completely different.
* Attempts to control their addiction by changing social networks. For example jumping from Myspace to Facebook.
* SNEAKING for long periods of time.
* Deleting wall posts so that others don't notice their excessive amount of posts or updates.
* Binge SNEAKING and sleepless nights due to SNEAKING. Drowsiness the next day from long nights of SNEAKING.
What is S.N.A?
Social Networking Anonymous (S.N.A) is an online community of men, women, boys, and girls who help each other control their social networking addiction. They offer support to everyone and anyone who is ready to face their Social Networking Addiction and SNEAKING habits. They all have a unique understanding of each other because people on the site are all social networking addicts, except for the online friends of addicts who join for moral support of a Social Networking Addict.
S.N.A members say that they are currently social networking addicts even when they have not been online for many hours, days, or months. They don't believe that they can be completely free of their addiction because it is literally at their fingertips. Once people have lost the ability to control their SNEAKING, they can never become "former social networking addicts" or "ex-social networking addicts". But in S.N.A, they can become recovering social networking addicts. The community is accessible on www.SocialNetworkingAddiction.com.
The full version of the "Brief Guide To Social Networking Addiction" can be downloaded from:
Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu, Author of upcoming book, Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts. Free eBook, A Brief Guide to Social Networking Addiction Website: http://www.thefacebookaddiction.com
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If your not on Facebook yet, now is the time to join. It's really easy and it's free. Just go to Facebook.com and put in your profile. A good picture of yourself is really necessary, as Facebook is a place to connect with people and they want to know what you look like. Just like you will want to know who your are connecting with. You can upload pictures of your family, travels you've done, places you've seen, anything to let people know you're a real person, and what you do.
You can post updates on Facebook to let people know what your daily activities are. Maybe your having a party, or a big event is coming up you might think they want to attend. You can even add things like a good book you just read or a business opportunity you just came across.
It's real important to keep Facebook as a social place, not just about business. Don't try to promote your business, let your new found friends find out for them selves what you do. You can post things that are related to helping people in business, like ways to advertise. You can also join groups that have to do with different business. Or make up a group of your own and have people join it.
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