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Social Media Vocabulary: #SM Diseases and Disorders Part II

Social media can sure be fun, but sometimes we can run into problems, especially when it comes to those nasty diseases and disorders. We warned you about a few before, but here are 5 more to

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OTD? I think so...

Social media can sure be fun, but sometimes we can run into problems, especially when it comes to those nasty diseases and disorders. We warned you about a few before, but here are 5 more to watch out for!

  1. Social Media Anxiety: Stemming from a fear of being judged or being foolish, a person suffering from social media anxiety has their ability to communicate via social media extremely crippled.
  2. Digital Bipolar Disorder: Rapid swings from an extreme love for social media, to a position of extreme disdain. And back. And forth. And back.
  3. Twitterhea: According to Urban Dictionary, OTD is frantic tweeting “in a short time span (often pointless tweets posted just to pass the time), twitching, or putting @ signs in front of a person’s name even when not on Twitter.”
  4. Obsessive Twitter Disorder (OTD): Also known as Obsesssive Compulsive Twitter Disorder or OCTD, it is defined as “the compulsive desire to stay within a five foot radius of any device connected to Twitter and exhibiting anger at whomsoever disturbes them while posting updates.”
  5. Digital Depression: A feeling of helplessness, loneliness, or other dip in confidence or self-esteem associated with unclicked shared links, lack of comments, or loss of friends or followers along one’s social networks.