Excessive online social networking: Can adolescents become addicted to Facebook?

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The uses and abuses of Facebook: A review of Facebook addiction (2014, background): “Indeed, Kuss and Griffiths (2011) argue that relationship maintenance is the main motivator for all SNS use.”
Addiction to mobile text messaging applications is nothing to “lol” about (2014, background): “Given these disturbing findings and previous researchers’ warnings regarding the addictive potential of CMC behaviors (Griffiths, 2000, 2010, 2012; Kuss & Griffiths, 2011; Widyanto & Griffiths, 2006), one may speculate that mobile text messaging technologies, such as BBM and WhatsApp applications,…”
The invisible addiction: Cell-phone activities and addiction among male and female college students (2014, background): “In a study looking at Facebook addiction, Kuss & Griffiths (2011) conclude that females, unlike their male counterparts, tend to use social networking sites largely to communicate with members of their peer group.”