
Over the past three years Dr. Flores has studied the Facebook phenomenon extensively, interviewing people from across the globe on their experiences with social-media addiction, and how social-media has affected their sense of self, social interactions, sense of privacy, need for validation, relationships, along with their emotional responses to stress encountered online, cyber-bullying, and emotional manipulators. As a social-media expert and commentator, she regularly appears as the resident psychologist on The Ron Kelly Show and co-hosts radio show The Bad Boy and The Doc. She is a regular blog contributor to Pros and Cons, and has appeared on national and international Newscasts, Podcasts, radio and talk shows including CBS.com, WGN Radio Chicago, The ManCow Show in Chicago, National Public Radio (NPR), Univision Television News, Sound Off with E.V.E, Charlotte News WSOC-TV, WLTH 1370AM Radio, "LIVE! with The Love Dr." Deanna Lorraine, and radio broadcasts out of Cologne, Germany. She also frequently contributes to print media and was quoted in CBS Chicago, Esquire.com, Everyday Health Magazine, Mashable.com, Dame Magazine, The Nation Magazine, SheKnows.com, Vegas Seven Magazine, New Parent Magazine, Hispanic Health & Beauty Magazine, La Raza Newspaper, Newlyweds.com, Upwave.com, Mujeres Sin Censura, and Moms.me. Dr. Flores is frequently asked to present at various universities and organizations throughout the Chicago-land area. Recently she presented at the National Security Awareness Symposium through CSSIA on privacy issues surround social-media.