The two most dominating characteristics of Teen Social Media Addiction is the large amount of time that teens spend on social media and the underlying reasons why they’re doing so. Teens with Social Media Addiction have an almost constant nagging desire to check updates, write statuses, share a picture, play a game, or engage in their social media world in some way. They’re often much more interested and participatory in this online world than they are the real world that they inhabit with actual people, having real conversations, and undergoing real experiences. Along these same lines, another negative effect of such overuse of social media is teens become more willing and skilled at socially interacting online than they have the ability to, in person. Especially considering that adolescence is a time when the development of social skills is especially valuable and necessary in their lives, teens may likely be harming their in-person social skills by retreating to the online world, choosing to interact in the cyber realm rather than developing real social skills. This can, in turn, hurt the teen’s ability to function well and succeed in required social settings, like time at school and making friends during extracurricular activities.