Social Media Rehab: Are You Addicted?

This is not necessarily new territory to cover, but with just about everyone these days using feature-rich smartphones on the go to manage their social media profiles, and more importantly, their lives ― anywhere, anytime, anyplace ― a steady stream of research has been published about users' social media habits.

While some of this research has been treated with a sense of humor (e.g. how many users update their Facebook profiles when using the restroom?), other statistics, quite frankly, border on the absurd, and even worse and more shockingly, may be regarded as addictive or compulsive behavior.

Need proof? Check out some of these stats below:

Click here for a larger version of this summary. If you're updating your Twitter stream before you get out of bed, you're definitely addicted. Just sayin'.