Decosmication

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education cited a study that students who have social media (phones, interwebs, etc) taken away from them experience withdrawal symptoms, similar to those experienced by alcoholics or drug addicts.

My reaction to this study?

Social media
Is too big to be denied.
Just like oxygen.

Seriously, if you're researching the withdrawal signs from the internet and texting, you may as well also research those signs for oxygen and water. If you don't know- the withdrawal symptoms often associated with those are suffocation and dehydration. The only difference with social media is that the withdrawal symptoms don't have a label pinned to them yet. To that effect, I have decided to personally dub the withdrawal from social media as "decosmication" (and no that word has never been used on the internet before. Google it). If you are at all familiar with linguistics, you will see that I simply used the Greek root for universe, since, in this day and age, to be deprived of technology is to be deprived of the universe.

Honestly though, this study may be a little bit excessive, if you ask me. We know that technology is necessary in day to day life for the average person- and vital for the average college student. Without a computer, one suddenly loses the ability to check homework, do homework, and communicate in general.

The article, if you're curious: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Denied-Social-Media/23561/