i’m your standard college tyro who has the Facebook account.
What have been the little tips to get over my “addiction”..
(Addiction meaning: i can’t live but checking my comment at your convenience i record onto the mechanism AND at your convenience I have the possibility to check “facebook mobile” upon my Blackberry)
I DO NOT wish to undo my account, only revoke my useage somehow. But at your convenience I go upon the computer, I only ramble off upon the Facebook tour for utterly the little time. It’s sad, i know! & i all dont think about what I’m unequivocally upon the mechanism for.
Thoughtful comments please!
Thanks in advance.
Can any one relate?!?!?!?!?!?
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Delete your account.
if you really can’t do that… try only going on for FIVE minutes at a time, thats enough time to check your homepage and get off! or try going on facebook after you finish what you went on the computer to do
If this is a new addiction, you’ll get bored of it and will stop after sometime. if you have been like this for quite some time then restrict ur access to the internet. disconnect gprs from ur balckberry.
Find friends that are not connected to you through facebook/internet. Do something other then going on the computer.
replace it with something else when you are bored. Set a time or 2 each day to check your facebook and find other things to do if it is not time.
i can VERY MUCH relate ^_^ ..fb is really addicting..
do some other things which are productive:
-spend time with your family and friends
-make use of your talent (whatever it may be), singing, dancing, sketching, etc.
-play your favorite sport/s
what’s good about this, is you get to spend more time with real people.. (not just on PC/web).
Not everyone has the chance to do what they want to do.. so dont take them for granted..
Start a facebook group for addicted facebook users, charge a few cents per view.
Meanwhile get yourself some kind of “reader” application that only reads/writes the facebook status updates, so it seems more like twitter.
its weird people usually have addictions with computer games like warcraft and stuff but your addiction is with a social networking site. The advice is the same: hang out wif ur frens, play sports like soccer or basketball and stuff like that.
Hope this helps =)
How about watching this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B37wW9CGWyY
It did it for me.
i know exactly what u mean!!! i always end up on FB no matter what im doing and even when im out i always check in on my mobile.. i went through a stage of getting bored of it and stopped going on on my mobile but the addiction is well and truly back again now! =/ .. i’d say just try only go on it for an hour or so a day, or limit yourself to times to go on it, or delete it from your favourites or homepage if its set as that, so your not tempted!