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Given that I spend countless hours on Facebook, I’d imagine that calling me a “Facebook Addict” wouldn’t be too far off. I mean it is pretty much my job at this point. According to the FB Addict application though, I am not hooked on Facebook. My qualification for a Facebook addict? If you add this application to check, you probably are a Facebook addict. The factors used by this application to determine whether or not you are an addict are: entering your gender, being part of a network, recency of profile editing, filling all of your profile, having a popular wall and posting lots of notes.
Entering your gender accounts for one sixth of your Facebook addiction? I have to disagree with their model. I would base your addiction on time spent on Facebook, number of status updates, number of messages sent and number of applications installed. All of these things can’t be tracked by applications though so they had to use another model. While this may not be the most accurate model for measuring your addiction, close to 15,000 people used this application yesterday and over 150,000 users have add the application in total.
If you want to check if you are an Facebook addict based on the FB Addict model, go install the FB Addict application. If you disagree with their model, what do you think are the tell tale signs of Facebook addiction?
One tell-tale sign of addiction is disagreement with the model that a facebook application uses to diagnose addiction.
One tell-tale sign of addiction is disagreement with the model that a facebook application uses to diagnose addiction.
Apparently 55% addicted to Facebook.
I think the application should also count in the amount of time Facebook per day. I’m online everyday, most of the day, through my cell phone, which limits the amount of full interaction on the actual site for me. Let’s not get started on my Scrabulous addiction!
I’d say I’m actually somewhere in the region of 93% addicted, especially if you’d count in group administering and activity.
The 5 different attributes which the app uses are a little vague. Entering gender and being a part of a network is something that everyone ought to do anyway. Having a popular wall is mainly an indication of how addicted your friends are. I can understand the profile editing, and the notes (although I fetch my notes from my blog). There really should be more contributing attributes for this app to work.
Hi Nick, Leo, Jani, all -
I made FB Addict - glad you found it fun! For sure contribute on the wall any ideas on how we can better determine addiciton… you’re right that some measures which would’ve been useful (time logged in, time since last login, total number of apps installed, etc) aren’t made available to us developers so I have to go with what I can.
One minor correction - each aspect of your addiction is given a weight; so in fact entering your gender counts for more like 1/20th of your total score.
Adam
Apparently 55% addicted to Facebook.
I think the application should also count in the amount of time Facebook per day. I’m online everyday, most of the day, through my cell phone, which limits the amount of full interaction on the actual site for me. Let’s not get started on my Scrabulous addiction!
I’d say I’m actually somewhere in the region of 93% addicted, especially if you’d count in group administering and activity.
The 5 different attributes which the app uses are a little vague. Entering gender and being a part of a network is something that everyone ought to do anyway. Having a popular wall is mainly an indication of how addicted your friends are. I can understand the profile editing, and the notes (although I fetch my notes from my blog). There really should be more contributing attributes for this app to work.
Hi Nick, Leo, Jani, all -
I made FB Addict - glad you found it fun! For sure contribute on the wall any ideas on how we can better determine addiciton… you’re right that some measures which would’ve been useful (time logged in, time since last login, total number of apps installed, etc) aren’t made available to us developers so I have to go with what I can.
One minor correction - each aspect of your addiction is given a weight; so in fact entering your gender counts for more like 1/20th of your total score.
Adam
I must be addicted - I have a badge that says so!
I must be addicted - I have a badge that says so!