NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK ADDICTION

Social networking website, Facebook is very popular at present and human being becomes habitual of it. The number of Facebook users boosts up day by day. Apart from the positive sides of Facebook, it also has some negative effects also. People, especially teenagers make their habit to Facebook without realizing the negative effects of Facebook. Some studies have suggested that Facebook can cause many negative things.
Nowadays everyone has a Facebook account but it is used for personal use by some people and other uses it for advertise, or to keep people up to date on events, etc. The users’ decision causes either positive or negative aspect so they need to know how to manage, maintain, and use their own account. If people can not keep control over this addiction, then it may turn into the negative things.

Facebook is accessed by over 100 million users through their cell phones. People, who use personal computers to access Facebook are less active in comparison to those, who use their cell phones for the same. The entire world spent up to a whopping 6 billion minutes a day on Facebook. The requirement is to give a serious thought to this question whether time is spent or wasted on Facebook.
Symptoms of Facebook Addiction
Some symptoms of Facebook addiction are given below to help users in realizing whether they are really addicted to Facebook.

• Users and their siblings communicate through Facebook wall and messages, even if they stay in same house.
• Users check Facebook for updates and comments after every hour at their workstation or on their cell phone.
• Users wake up in the morning, and log onto their Facebook account first.
• Users’ Facebook wall is full of status updates, comments, and applications that they just used.
• Users give priority to Facebook over their commitments in professional and personal life.
• Users spend over an hour on Facebook at a stretch or in short episodes over regular intervals.
• Users can not stop thinking about Facebook updates and comments when they are offline.
• Users look forward to get home in the evening so that they can see what is happening in cyberspace. (on Facebook to be precise)
• Users can not go for a day without using Facebook, and even this thought makes them go into sort of depression.
• Users’ day ends with checking Facebook for that one last time bidding people 'good night' through their Facebook status update.

If users are facing any of these activities, then they are suffering from Facebook addiction disorder. Facebook addiction disorder contains the tendency to affect some serious problem of their mental health and social life. Therefore they need to throw away this habit as soon as possible.

ALCOHOL AND HEART DISEASES

Most people don't think of alcohol as a drug...but it is. Alcohol abuse has destroyed more lives, broken apart more families, caused more diseases and contributed to more auto fatalities than any other drug. It is the major contributing factor in the growing epidemic of domestic violence.
More than half of all adults drink, but, not everyone who drinks is an alcoholic. Alcoholism is a complex psychosocial disease. Those who drink risk becoming an alcoholic. It impairs your judgement and affects the way you think, feel and communicate.
The cause of alcoholism is unknown, but, like heart disease, there are both controllable and uncontrollable risk factors. Having an alcoholic parent is an uncontrollable risk. You are at risk if you are angry, lonely or sad or have few or no friends. Those who are poor or under great stress are also at risk for alcoholism.
Alcohol addiction has 4 characteristics:

1. Alcoholism carries an overwhelming urge to repeat the experience of getting high on alcohol. At times, this urge will go beyond the strength of a person's will to resist, no matter how much risk or harm may be involved.
2. Satisfying the urge to drink becomes the top priority in the alcoholic's life. This urge can become stronger than sexual needs, stronger than the need to satisfy hunger, stronger even than the need for survival.
3. The urge to get high with alcohol becomes linked to all other aspects of life. Tension, depression, anger and excitement can all trigger the desire to take a drink.
4. No matter how long an alcoholic has been sober, he or she will always be at risk for alcohol abuse. As time passes with sobriety, the urge to drink weakens and occurs less often, but it can return with ferocious and overpowering strength at any time.

Do you wonder if drinking may be a problem for you? Take this quiz to find out.

1. Do you calm yourself down with a drink when under pressure at work?
2. Do you ever have hangovers?
3. Do family quarrels usually occur after you have had a drink or two?
4. Does your family think you drink too much?
5. Have you ever injured yourself or other persons after drinking?
6. Are you often on, and off, the wagon?
7. Have you ever driven while intoxicated?
8. Do you avoid situations where it would be difficult for you to get a drink if you wanted one?
9. When giving yourself a second or third drink, do you reassure yourself that you deserve it?
10. If you know that you have to drive home in an hour, do you ever have a second drink anyway?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, you need to look carefully at how alcohol is affecting your life and your relationships with others. Discuss your concerns with your primary care doctor.
How much alcohol is “safe” to drink on a daily basis? For some, no amount of alcohol is safe to take in. It is highly addictive and, as tolerance level increases, control decreases.

Alcohol's Affect on the Heart

Numerous studies suggest that moderate alcohol consumption helps protect against heart disease by raising HDL (good) cholesterol and reducing plaque accumulations in your arteries. Alcohol also has a mild anti-coagulating effect, keeping platelets from clumping together to form clots. Both actions can reduce risk of heart attack but exactly how alcohol influences either one still remains unclear.
On the other hand, drinking more than three drinks a day has a direct toxic effect on the heart. Heavy drinking, particularly over time, can damage the heart and lead to high blood pressure, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, (enlarged and weakened heart), congestive heart failure, and stroke. Heavy drinking puts more fat into the circulation in your body, raising your triglygeride level. That's why doctors will tell you “If you don't drink, don't start”. There are other, healthier ways to reduce your risk of heart disease like eating right, getting regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight.
What's “Moderate Drinking” for one may be legally drunk for another. By nature's design, a woman's body metabolizes alcohol differently so that 1 alcoholic beverage in a woman is equal to 2 in a man. Alcohol remains in a woman's body longer than in a man's. Also, the older you are, the less efficient the body can metabolize alcohol. Many states have revised their drunk-driving laws and 0.08 percent is considered to be intoxicated. Women, especially women of small stature, must be alert to these laws and metabolic differences when drinking, and limit their alcohol intake accordingly.