It seems that the Google Glass review tells us that the reported Glass addiction is indeed real, as there have been reports of a victim that has been reported to be experiencing "withdrawal" from Google Glass.
The victim, who is known as a thirty-one year old Navy service member, has apparently checked in a rehabilitation center after reports of him involuntarily tapping his right temple whenever he would get asked a question, or whenever he would feel the need to, has alarmed relatives and friends near him. The involuntary tapping was obviously an effect of the use of Google Glass which requires the user to tap his or her right temple to search or utilize the high technology gadget.
The victim was also reported to have been diagnosed with alcoholism, but the unusual tapping behavior does not equate to his alcoholism problem. The user reportedly uses the device for up to eighteen hours a day, and only takes it off during the times when he would take a bath and go to sleep. The user has been reported to be extremely dependent on the device and could not function properly without it.
According to Vice News: "As reports on the Glass addict noted, the patient suffered from depression, social anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder. It's speculative but reasonable to consider how a wearable device like Glass might mediate and shape experience in a way that appeals to the socially anxious or depressed. Glass might be 'addictive' in this way as an object relied upon for rewarding feedback. This sort of self-medication, as with substances like alcohol, can certainly exacerbate anguish and produce new problems. But the pain was already there and won't suddenly disappear when someone puts down the glass or the Glass."
The Navy service member has reportedly been doing well in his rehab stint for the Google Glass Review, but as technology rises even further, speculators are worried that the rehab might do a whole lot for the victim, since he would have to live on his own with all the advancements of technology around him, making it extremely hard to not give in to temptation.
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