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

Education and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 68-71

  Kuss, Daria J ^a   Griffiths, Mark D ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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