Do you facebook? How much do you facebook? Can you break up with facebook?
Ok, so the reason I ask is because I was starting to add up the hours, yes hours, that I’m on this stupid thing a week. It is a total time suck. I eventually stopped adding up the hours because I didn’t want to actually fully process the number I was getting up to. I’ve played a stupid mafia Wars game on there for the better part of 1 year. YES, 1 efffing year. I took a break from the game for 3 months, but I got sucked back in over the holiday’s. The game is freaking addictive. FB is freaking addictive. Christ almighty I get into trouble making off colour remarks to random chicks I knew when I was 15. The bottom line is I spend way to much time on that site and I get very little in return.
Sure I have hooked up with old friends and guys I was on the boat with. But I have learned that many of my FB friends are racists, conservative, have no lives besides the ones they create on Farmville and Sorority. (note: I am one the people that has no lives) I have also learned that some of my family and friends want to drug test Welfare Recipients, are ok with torture, think Obama is Kenyan, love Sarah Palin, are TEA Baggers and think Scott Brown is the 2nd coming.
That is the return I’m getting and I don’t like it. I’m sure people don’t like what they are getting from me either though. I’m fine with that to be honest. I’m the FB thorn and I’m proud of it. Sorta. Not really. My anger at others spills onto the tubes and it isn’t fair to my stupid friends.
This all comes from me analyzing what I’ve been doing with my time now that I don’t drink. It also has to do with how my son comes up to me and wedges himself in between me and the laptop and what that says. I don’t like that he does it. I don’t like what that says. It’s time to quit FB. Priorities man, pry or ri tees.
After baby sqyuishy was put to bed, I was flipping through the channels and went looking for some education HD style. I looked though several channels and came across WHYY2 and started watching a Frontline series hosted by Douglas Rushkoff:
hi. my name is donna and i’m a facebook addict. i spend an inordinate amount of time on the site. like you, i am too embarrassed to actually count the hours. fortunately, i have never fallen prey to the games – mafia wars, farmville, etc; however, i’ve lost many friends (and by ‘lost’ i mean ‘been forced to hide’) because i could no longer tolerate their incessant score updates…i mean, seriously, wtf? does that info have to be published or can it be kept private?
i use fb as a tool to keep in touch with friends. perhaps the most appealing aspect of fb friendship is that it’s incredibly carefree. no pressure to actually see or spend time with people (talk about a total time suck!). it’s the perfect amount of communication for a reclusive social butterfly like myself. i like to interact with people, but i prefer to do it in snippets rather than have to commit an entire afternoon or evening to it. there’s only one of me, dammit, and everyone wants a piece of the charm. ;^)
fb has been quite beneficial to me from a business standpoint. i recently got my real estate license and three of my clients came to me through fb. not to shabby.
anyhoo, while i understand your breakup, i hope you and fb can work it out. it would be sad to see you leave the community. i’ve enjoyed seeing your comments on mutual friends’ pages.
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^’not too shabby’…ugh. that was inexcusable for a grammar freak.
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There’s an app for that…
I don’t have a Facebook account for pretty much the same reasons I don’t have a tattoo.
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I day of FB sobriety! wooohoooo
man this is almost harder than not drinking
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The other day I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in about 6 months. Well because we were FB friends, we knew about each others activities and major life events that had occurred since we last saw each other and as a result, had nothing to say to each other
Don’t know if that’s a bad thing or not. I’m also running into what DV mentions about different groups that friends of mine join. I also think a girl I used to have a thing for has a really bad drinking problem. Not sure that I want or need that info 
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I think the last straw for me was when I saw family members and old Navy buddies saying that people should be drug tested if they are on getting welfare.
I used to be on welfare and was in the Navy literally, in the Navy serving my country. It’s shitty and wrong.
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mark – i think that’s a good thing. if you hadn’t been fb friends, you probably would have ended up in an awkward small-talk conversation that neither one of you knew quite how to get out of except to make an empty promise to get together. since he’s a fb friend, you probably were able to wrap it up with a quick ’see ya on fb!’ and head on home.
dv – i don’t judge FB friends for the groups they join, tho many of them are certainly head-scratchers. it takes all kinds to make the world go ’round. i don’t agree with everything anyone believes in. you can always hide or unfriend the people who offend you.
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how can you not judge them…
4 days sober from FB and loving life
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