experience this is the question recently posed by the recently posed by republican senator out of missouri josh holley when he questioned the methods of financial gain used by social media giants like facebook and twitter social media only works as a business model it consumes users time and attention day after day it needs to replace the various activities we did perfectly well without social media addiction is actually the point that's what social media shareholders are investing in the addiction of users he went on in the usa today piece to call social media a parasite on human relationships and societies gentleman this is interesting to me is social media a parasite on society in its current form the one guy who never stops tweeting and never stops facebook in his hall and so i mean let him start i had a psycho therapist nancy collier on my show and you are not overstating it when you say addiction because she talked about court a soul and there is something biochemical that's happening when you get that validation and when we're hyped up to the point where we're always on as opposed to experienci