Complete the Social Media Disorder Scale. How did you score?  What do you think about the items in the scale?  Why do you think that different patterns are found across the world?

I took the Social Media Disorder questionnaire and scored (what I believe to be) low with a score of 3/9. I honestly think this scale would only be good if there is a person with quit an obvious problem. I feel like the questions were too broad and should be refined a bit. A question such as “In the past year have you tried to spend less time on social media, but failed?”. Of course I answered yes to this, if you are below the age of 45 then most people, I’m sure, would answer yes. ‘ve definitely thought “i’m going to go to bed early tonight” and then ended up on twitter longer than I wanted. So I didn’t really try that hard and it wasn’t that important to go to bed early at that time. The question should expand more and ask “how often do you try and get off social media and fail” and then “how has this affected your life.” Then I think you’d get a more accurate reading of if a person has a disorder or not.

There would definitely be different patterns found around the world based on income and availability of social media/internet, and population. Folks in North Korea would have completely different answers than those in Japan vs Brazil vs Ukraine.