Ebook: Help I'm a FACEBOOKAHOLIC: Inside the Crazy World of Social Networking

Cover; Title; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1 Social-Networking Etiquette; 2 Love -- When It All Goes Right; 3 Love -- When It All Goes Wrong; 4 Social-Networking Blunders; 5 Friends Online and Petworking; 6 Celebrities; 7 Stalking; 8 Politics; 9 Living Through Tweeting; 10 The Language of Social-Networking and Getting It Together; 11 Reunited -- and It Feels Good; 12 A Brief History of Social Networking; 13 How Social-Networking Has Taken Over Popular Culture; 14 Business Social-Networking, Being Someone Else and Are You Online Happy?; 15 Advertising, Hoaxes and Games.;Whether it's a means of staying in touch with old friends or of making new enemies, Facebook - which celebrates its 7th birthday in 2011 - is impossible to ignore ... In June an Irish MEP called for Facebook to be regulated as a health hazard, in the same way as alcohol and drugs. It's not hard to see why. According to experts at top addiction clinic, The Priory, one in ten of us is in danger of becoming addicted to Facebook, and in need of psychiatric help to recover. We log on compulsively to keep tabs on our friends (and, more importantly, our enemies), we obsessively acquire 'friends', even t.