Twitter Might Be More Addictive Than Alcohol Or Sex

How well can you resist your desires? Apparently, if they include checking your @mentions and sending out profound thoughts in 140 characters or less, they’re extremely hard to resist.

A new study has been released that suggests that Twitter, email and other online communication is more addictive than cigarettes, alcohol or sex.

Conducted by researchers at the Chicago University’s Booth Business School, this experiment gave BlackBerries to 205 people between the ages of 18 and 35 to test their willpower.

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