Social Media Addiction:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/9986950/Twitter-and-Facebook-addicts-suffer-withdrawal-symptoms.html

7 Telltale Signs Of Facebook Addiction

1. Over-Sharing

2. Checking Your Facebook Whenever Possible

3. Overly Concerned With Facebook Image

4. Reporting On Facebook

5. Spending Hours Browsing Through Facebook Every Day

6. Mad Rush To Add More Friends

7. Compromising Offline Social Life

Facebook Syndrome: How to tell if you are an internet addict

Before we start you need to find out if you are an addict. Once you have admitted to yourself that you are addicted to your favorite website we can go about giving you some solutions for that problem. Here are some surefire signs that you are addicted:

1. You are late for meetings because you are on Facebook
If you ever late for a meeting or an appointment because you were checking your updates on Facebook or watching a related video on Youtube then you know you are addicted. This is classic addict behavior. It is time to get help.

2. You think about it when you are offline
I have several friends who struggle to get to sleep because they are thinking about the latest game or wondering how their website statistics are looking. If you do this then it could be a sign that you are heading towards a problem.

3. Your friends and family comment on your excessive internet use
When other people around you start to notice that you have a problem it is generally a pretty accurate indicator that you are losing it. If your mates, coworkers or family members have made comments about how much you use the net then you need to read the rest of this post.

4. You check your accounts from your Blackberry
A Blackberry is designed as a business tool. It is supposed to allow you to check your important emails and work materials without having to be in the office. It is not for checking Facebook or Myspace updates while you are having dinner with me. That is just not on. If you use your Blackberry for monitoring your social media accounts then you need help.

5. You get stressed when a Facebook “friend” doesn’t add you
Have you ever noticed yourself getting stressed over something that has happened on Facebook or Myspace? Do you ever feel like your online life is more real than your offline life? If you have been stressed about what rapper you turned out asor what magic egg someone sent you then it is time to open your eyes.

How Facebook Addiction Affects Us

In doing research for her book, keeping up on the latest studies about Facebook addiction and from her own personal experience, Adams said she's learned about several ways that addiction can affect us. Here are some of those ways she outlined during our conversation:

1. Belief we have to always be connected: "We're plugged into these machines, and I think because they're on 24/7, we think we have to be as well. We forget they're plugged into this electricity supply that gives them endless energy, and we don't have one of those."

2. Over-activity: "As a society, we are spending more time on screens overall. It's having a huge impact on our stress response system. We're sort of over-activated all the time."

3. Lack of concentration:: "It's affecting our ability to concentrate. We're more prone to disruptions. It can lead to angry behavior."

4. More stress:: "It raises our levels of hypertension and likely some sort of inflammatory disorder. It lowers our emotional intelligence."

5. Comparing ourselves to others: "It raises our feelings of envy and resentment. We're constantly comparing ourselves to what other people are doing. People are shoving their holidays in our face which is one of the things that causes the most anxiety on Facebook."

6. Losing sense of reality: "It undermines our satisfaction with life in general and can lead to depression in life."

7. Physical impact: "Physically, when you're sitting looking at a device, it affects the biological makeup of our body. We're hunched over, we're feeling lower, and we're less infused on life."

8. Loss of free time: "The time drain obviously has an impact too because we have less time to do things that will build us up, whether physical activity or spending time with loved ones."

9. Other issues: "We have a serious increase in mental health disorders. It's as if we haven't evolved as quickly as the technology. We haven't evolved in a way to keep up at it."

App Interfaces:

I've not really looked into how different elements of an app/website work and since our idea is to create a app/website to display information on a person's addiction of Facebook (currently, twitter is our next idea to develop onto if it works out) These images are research and inspiration for how different UI can be designed within the app, examples I think work really well or show something different.