Yes, you can be addicted to social media. Do you feel antsy when you can’t connect and check your status updates or followers? Do you feel phantom vibrations from your phone and check it constantly for updates? Do you lose yourself for hours on social media sites and wonder where the time went? Do you try to cut back but find you can’t? If you can answer yes to any of these questions, you have a problem. You may or may not be a full-fledged social media addict, but you are displaying addictive behaviors, and it turns out these could make you vulnerable to substance abuse.