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?

During the past year, have you …

• regularly found that you can’t think of anything else but the moment that you will be able to use

social media again? Never

• regularly felt dissatisfied because you wanted to spend more time on social media? Never

• often felt bad when you could not use social media? Never

• tried to spend less time on social media, but failed? Use to

• regularly neglected other activities (e.g. hobbies, sport) because you wanted to use social media? Never

• regularly had arguments with others because of your social media use? Never

• regularly lied to your parents or friends about the amount of time you spend on social media? Never

• often used social media to escape from negative feelings? Use to

• had serious conflict with your parents, brother(s) or sister(s) because of your social media use? Never

For the most part, all my answers were not true based on the Social Media Disorder scale.  In the past year, I have completely disassociated myself with all social media platforms due to toxicity, misinformation, and biased views that don’t contribute to society at all. In some of my answers, I answered “Use to” because I felt that when I did have social media, I may have had a problem on that issue. In addition to social media disorder, many individuals focus their lives on popularity and “clicks” on social media that corrupts their thinking. Instead of living their reality, they prefer living through their social media account. While this doesn’t happen all the time, some individuals are diseased by social media and don’t realize their issue. In a cybersecurity mindset, this raises issues towards an organization if an employee is oversharing on social media. As an individual who overshares personal or organizational information can be leveraged by attacks to compromise or attack the business they work at.