{"id":128,"date":"2017-01-03T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/?p=128"},"modified":"2017-01-10T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:27:06","slug":"social-media-virtual-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/2017\/01\/03\/social-media-virtual-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media &#8211; The Virtual Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-188 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/smartphone2-e1483454872190.jpg\" alt=\"social media smartphone\" width=\"940\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/smartphone2-e1483454872190.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/smartphone2-e1483454872190-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/smartphone2-e1483454872190-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you find yourself checking in with social media in strange places? Fixed to Facebook in the bath or tied up with Twitter in the cinema? Are you struggling to resist the urge to pick up your phone and scroll through an endless feed? Social media addiction is real and\u00a0on average, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/socialtimes\/social-media-addiction-stats\/504131\" target=\"_blank\">users<\/a> between the ages of 15 and 19 spend at least 3 hours per day on social networking sites&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So if you can&#8217;t stay away from social media, you&#8217;re not alone and you might find some help below&#8230;<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-Addiction-Infographic-Final.jpeg\" alt=\"social media addiction infographic\" width=\"824\" height=\"4324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-Addiction-Infographic-Final.jpeg 824w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-Addiction-Infographic-Final-57x300.jpeg 57w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-Addiction-Infographic-Final-768x4030.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-Addiction-Infographic-Final-195x1024.jpeg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself checking in with social media in strange places? Fixed to Facebook in the bath or tied up with Twitter in the cinema? Are you struggling to resist the urge to pick up your phone and scroll through an endless feed? Social media addiction is real and\u00a0on average, users between the ages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,9,7,5,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/meganedey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}