Ugh, I’m soo bad at this! since my last post, I have been logging in daily, and keeping logged in. I don’t know why, I barely post anything on there myself anymore, my last status update was written on the 21st of January, and my last activity was on Thursday, I posted a photo I took of my friends, and wrote on a friend’s wall. So to my friends, it looks like I hardly go on anymore. Little do they know.. ;D ah well. It’s so pointless going on there, it occurred to me that if I had managed to actually stay away for 2 weeks, I wouldn’t have missed out on anything as nobody had sent me messages or wrote on my wall in that time. Yet I stop logging in for 24 hours + and I imagine all these urgent important messages I must be missing out on lol.
Starting again, again..againI have changed my password again to something random so I won’t be able to just log in
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I decided I’m going to count the hours for today and keep track in this post..might give me some motivation.
1 hour so far…...
Edited to add: 3 hours…. 1 week ago
My original plan of only accessing facebook once a week has not really been successful, especially when trying to organise meetings with people in ‘real life’ But overall, I have managed to spend much less time on facebook. And I actually dont miss being on facebook. So, my goal is going quite well and I’m keeping mindful of not being on their so often. 2 weeks ago
I actually did manage to stay away for a whole day this time :P nearly made it two days but I logged in earlier for an hour, never mind hey, logged out again and hopefully I can try being (at least) 48 hours FB free this time. 2 weeks ago
Same problem, same reasons as before..I recently started a course (last week) studying maths, English and I.T which I thought would help me with many issues that came with being unemployed and generally having too much free time and with this one, my fb addiction, and it did..for like a few hours. I still logged on when I came home, and then I found myself logging on during my course time, ugh. So until I learn the art of self control, like most people seem to manage.. I have changed my password to random combination and hopefully this will help me go (at least!) 24 hours without logging on to Facebook. 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I’m still the dummy that keeps checking facebook each day. I plan on re-trying starting tomorrow morning since I already checked it today. I might just deactivate the account for extra incentive. 4 weeks ago
I think I might try limiting myself to 30 mins/ 1 x week on facebook just so I can reply to any messages I might have. I’m going to make Fridays ‘facebook’ day).
My reason for wanting to spend less time on facebook is because for some reason it makes me feel drained, anxious and annoyed by constantly being updated with everything that everyone is doing throughout the day. I also feel like I waste too much time on there when I could be doing more productive things that make me feel good (e.g. studying more Italian, reading, going for a walk, meeting friends in ‘real life’). 4 weeks ago
the stayfocused thing didnt really work for me because i realised you could just disable it, so ive now changed my password to something really long and hard to remember and hopefully I wont go on it as much! 1 month ago
used leechblock on firefox now i have no access on facebook between 8am and 7pm also deleted it on my bb! 2 days yippeee 1 month ago
I’ve got the stay focused thing on google chrome so I am limiting myself to 5 minutes a day. I have so much uni work I need to do and it is such a distraction! 1 month ago
Well, for one I deleted around 60% of the people that I no longer spoke to regularly if at all. I still have literally another 50% that I just feel guilty deleting even though they are acquaintances through family, work, etc.
My husband is now on there, he checks his around once a month. I feel like cutting it down just to once a week would be beneficial. So much time is wasted reading status updates and the negative ones really bother me.
I used it mainly to upload photos and I think I will try to phase that out. 1 month ago
Logged onto FB to add my brother. Read a few updates from friends via the newsfeed and logged out, all within a minute. 1 month ago
Still too much time for my liking.
I deactivated my fb account (mainly cos I needed to get over someone, but that is another goal in itself which I am working on!)
I have since started a new account around mid-December, as I was missing contact with a few people. I decided to just use my facebook basically as an extension of keeping in touch with friends/acquaintances when I need to message them.
I am going to try to keep this profile as basic as possible and not write my daily business on there :p I have hidden tagged photos and only uploaded a few profile photos, and a Christmas photo album for my relatives to see as they were in the photos and some of the video footage. But I will keep photo uploading to a minimum, or just use flickr instead and link certain people to the albums if they wish to see any of them.
So, my aim is to only log onto Facebook when I need to message friends and so they can message me. (most seem to prefer fb to texting/calling these days)
ooh has been a whole 2 hours since I last logged in… I know, wow…right?! ;) 1 month ago
I’ve noticed that faebook has gotten very boring recently. I only go on it once or twice a day for a couple of minutes to check for messages. I used to spend so long browsing my news feed and peoples profiles and for the life of me I can’t think why I did that, it’s so boring!! 2 months ago
Well…I have deactivated my account (again) I have tried just not logging in, but I then wonder ‘what if people message me or add me and think I am ignoring them?’ ‘what if someone tags me in a photo?’ ‘what if…err..’ all pointless concerns to have, I know :) But I also like the idea of 1: more privacy, if I attend events I’m sure pictures of me will still end up on Facebook, but at least I can’t be tagged in them. and 2: just ..not being so easily accessible to people, anyone that wants to get in touch with me will make more effort, and we will actually have stuff to catch up on rather than reading the ‘latest news’ via FB first! 3 months ago
