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Suffering From Social Networking Anxiety Disorder (SNAD)
Written by Nicole Ferraro
5/23/2008 17 comments

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Social networking is fab, isn't it? The rekindled friendships, the fun quizzes and game applications, the mind-altering, crippling anxiety...

This could just be the before-effects of Memorial Day bar-b-que fumes decaying my remaining brain matter, but I think it's time to coin a new buzzphrase: Social Networking Anxiety Disorder, or as we'll call it from here on out, SNAD.

To be clear, SNAD is a bit different from what psychiatrists have defined as Social Anxiety Disorder, or SAD. According to the DSM IV, the guidebook to all things mental, SAD is 'a persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or"

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