Facebook makes you mad, We need a law against it

This needs to be read in full, just to see what sort of copper bottomed, prize idiot has been elected to the European Parliament by the good people of Leinster.
Stand up Nessa Childers, blithering idiot and waste of rations.

Parliamentary questions
16 June 2010
E-4380/2010
Question for written answer
to the Commission
Rule 117
Nessa Childers (S&D)

Subject: Internet addiction
There has been an explosion in the usage of this online social networking tool across Europe: unfortunately many people have crossed the line from social networking to social dysfunction. This is a real health issue and I am calling upon the Commission to take action.

Visiting your Facebook page frequently actually causes what psychologists refer to as ‘intermittent reinforcement’. Notifications, messages and invitations reward you with an unpredictable high, much like gambling. That anticipation can get dangerously addictive. Many people access their Facebook page once or twice a week; however, for others it has turned into a compulsion — and it is a compulsion to dissociate yourself from your real world and go and live in the Facebook world.

Moderate usage is not a problem at all for most people, however some people do not seem to realise that it is not real life.

With the passing into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU now has increased powers to legislate when there is a threat to public health in Europe. Will the Commission submit proposals to Parliament to address this growing threat to the mental health of European citizens?

What the blazes does she think that this newly empowered European Union can do? Should do?

I just wonder how this daughter of the late President of Ireland (and grandaughter of the author of Riddle of the Sands) got selected? Talent cannot be hereditary.

HT Julien Frisch and @PlaceLux on Twitter