It's a tool, and it offers information. You may have to know how to work the tool and decipher the info provided, but that is all it really is. I realize it is some people's escape, so yes you have those that will have an addiction to it. But think about it, who on this earth does not have an addiction to anything. And if you do not have an addiction, we need a clarification on the definition on what you perceive the term addiction to be.
And realize an addiction to something does not have to be a negative connotation. You can have healthy addictions as well, but they are in the end addictions.