Twitter and Facebook More Opium of Cigarettes

Chicago, In the world of cyberspace today, have a social networking account could be said is a must. Researchers found that twitter and facebook is more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes.

Resist the urge to check the status update or tweet on social networking sites proved more difficult than resisting the urge to smoke and drink alcohol, even more difficult than resist the urge to have sex.

The results of a survey of 250 people found that sleep and sex are two things that most missed by most people every day. But the impetus to continue to monitor social networking sites is the most difficult to resist.

In contrast, research published in the journal Psychological Science is actually found that alcohol and cigarette addiction levels are much lower. In fact, both have a reputation as a popular cause of opium.

Researchers from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business at American participants gave participants a piece of software to include the 8000 report of the daily desire of the participants.

Researchers discovered that the restraint to not check the update status or timeline of social networking will increase the possibility to monitor social networking at the next opportunity. The longer the restraint would increase the desire to access the internet and look at social networking sites.

"Over time, desire and self-control to be low, so attempts are made to resist the temptation to open social networking sites are more likely to fail," said researcher Dr. Wilhelm Hofmann as reported by the Telegraph, Friday (02/03/2012).

A similar study published in the same journal claims that hold back when it wants food can help control the amount of food consumed.

Researchers from the Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics found that people who put off eating chips in the experiment for a week and then eating chips in an amount lower than that immediately eat snacks.