The Facebook addiction test model used by the Norwegian researchers involves a new scale to ascertain the amount of involvement the social media tool has a in a person’s life and mental state. This scale, named the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale or BFAS, draws data from a Facebook user on six main areas that could trigger an addiction. These include:
Mood modification
Salience
Relapse
Tolerance
Withdrawal and
Conflict
Using a controlled survey model, the researchers tested over 420 subjects, with slightly more women than men in the group. The survey work also used a number of questions to probe into personality issues and evaluations, level of sleep received, how one performs socially, perceptions of Facebook, and whether or not a person agrees he has tendencies that typically fall into the addiction category. This survey was performed and review put together in 2011.