spend less time on facebook

ive found myself addicted to bejewelled blitz on fb again… i managed to stop playing it for a while, but started it again 2 days ago, and now i play it for hours sometimes.

its soooo addictive. most addictive game on fb.

impossible! i am weak! facebook u kill me!

one day i will be in control… not u facebook! damn u!

this is obviously the entry of a loony person…

Ive turned into a ghostbooker!!!!

I may have dramtically cut down my activity on facebook but I still check it several times a day (the downfall of having a phone with internet access)

On the upside, because I dont actually do anything it appears as though Im only on there every couple weeks but its not only a facade, its defeating the purpose of this goal which is to spend less time on facebook, not less time commenting and more time stalking. I need to work on this!

i dont want to de activate the account, i want to be able to go back occasionally to catch up with friends, look at pics or post pics etc. how ever i want to stop going there on a daily basis. feeling the need to update my status all the time and other things.

like maybe go on once or twice a week for half an hour at a time or something. instead of multiple times on a daily basis, like i do.

They say admitting you have a problem is the first step. Some also say that you have to hit rock bottom before you can improve—not sure if this is really necessary though. But I think I can safely say that I do have a problem.

I check my account all the time! If there’s a computer around I’ll check it multiple times an hour. Even when I’m running late for work I still feel the need to log on, change my status, etc. before I leave the house. I get this rush when I see that someone’s commented on my status, pictures, written on my wall, accepted or proposed a friend request. I don’t know what it is— okay, maybe I do….

I’ve never been very popular—a decent amount of acquaintances, but not a lot of friends. I suppose this has caused a need for acceptance, attention, praise, etc. I want people to find me funny and interesting, to want to be around me (even if it’s in a cyber-setting).

I actually resisted the Facebook pull for a while—to the point of a hearty boycott. That is until—and I’m not altogether proud to admit this—the ‘need’ to find out about (read: stalk) a new romantic interest. However, once I got on I got hooked… BIG TIME. I spend countless hours on it—checking out peoples’ profiles, pictures, taking pointless quizzes, changing my information, etc. Sometimes I wonder just how much time I’ve spent on it, but I think it would make me sick if I really knew.

Not that it’s ALL bad. I have re-connected with old friends (in real life) because of Facebook. I also ‘keep in touch’ with friends I made during my semester abroad—both Australians and Americans living all around the country.

So, I can’t say I’ll ever fully abandon Facebook. But the struggle is reach an appropriate balance— how do I do this? Baby steps, I suppose.

Through my experience, it ruins relationships, minimises actual communication with anyone who remotely matters and leads to jealousy and envy between friends.

Its not worth it and the falseness of it all tends to leave me unhappy. I could just about fall out with every friend I have from all the stalking that comes with being on the site … I want to start using alot less by the end of the year (i sound like an addict), otherwise I’ll feel like I’m missing out on all the festivites! But it has to be done … Wish me luck!

I just joined 43Things, discovered it accidentally :)..
So regarding Facebook. It’s quite interesting but highly addictive. In my case even more so. I broke up with my ex a month ago and I spend quite a few hours everyday staring at his profile, waiting for some activity, checking out his new girlfriends etc. It’s pathetic. Today, I have decided to limit my logging to 2 times a day. 10m in the morning and 10min in the evening. Until I find the courage to take even more drastic measures…

Sometimes I just log in out of habit. I want to try only once a day, then every few days, then twice a week.

I haven’t been able to cut back on Facebook use. Staying away from the house or the computer seems to work, though, even though I could check it on my mobile.

Maybe I should just try a time frame or something. Maybe decide that 10 am – 3 pm is time away from facebook. Maybe I’d get things done more.

I resisted the whole Facebook movement for a while. All of my friends had joined facebook and were asking me to join. I had a pact with a friend not to join – but we broke it in January and we’re both there now. I was abroad at the time and when I wrote e-mails to my friends back home, they never had time to respond. They’re always on Facebook, though!

Facebook is about shallow one-liners – you never really know how people are doing. I waste a huge chunk of my day browsing Facebook. Reading other people’s news and profiles doesn’t give me any satisfaction. I only get jealous that someone is traveling the world, someone is being productive, someone has a wide professional network and so on… I also get a bit paranoid, I never know who’s reading my stuff, since not many people comment.

I don’t want to quit facebook, it’s useful for finding out about events and maybe some old school friends, but I spend too much time on it, I check it dozens of times a day.

My goes is to log on to Facebook two times a day maximum – once in the morning and once in the afternoon.