Are you addicted to Facebook?
I know I am. It starts of with a simple exploration of your friends on the site and suddently you are logging on 10 times a day to see if any of your friends have made updates to their profile, changed their relationship status or have posted new videos or articles.
Define your goals on Facebook – Hmm … I never really had any goals with Facebook. Although maybe my goal should be to reach 5,000 friends. That surely would get me to login more frequently. WikiHow suggests just logging in to check on friends’ birthdays, keep track of old friends, etc. Once you catch yourself going off track, log off. If only it was that easy!
Admit you have a problem – This sounds like the first step to any other addiction. WikiHow suggests that you ask yourself “What did I just accomplish by checking Facebook?” Ha! If only I had that much self-control over my Facebook addiction. Well, at least I admit to it!
Think of other things you could be doing – Duh! This is a no brainer. I could be at the gym, socializing in the real world or a million other things but there is a reason I logged on in the first place. I’m starting to think that these suggestions are totally useless!
Make a Facebook Schedule – Seriously? If you find yourself scheduling Facebook into your daily schedule, this should be a serious warning sign. WikiHow suggests that “after each Facebook goal, write down how much time and at what frequency you’ll need to be on Facebook to achieve that goal.” Are they serious? Based on the calculations they suggested, you end up using Facebook for 6 hours and 20 minutes a week. I think this is still a relatively significant amount of time, although I spend much more time on the site.
Find a substitute – This one is good. Facebook taking up too much time? Find another site that isn’t as good! WikiHow says “if you find you’re at a computer during critical relapse time, find another website to log onto and read instead of Facebook.” Facebook relapse? This is a little crazy.
Leave Facebook – This should have been number one! If you are spending way too much time on Facebook, quit cold turkey. It’s like having your cell phone turned off for 24 hours. Once you do it, you will realize how dependent you have become and think twice about your usage.
So how much time do you spend on Facebook? Has Facebook become an addiction for you?
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a stalkers dream come true
facebook addict #1: dude you know that hot girl who lives upstairs, i totally got her screen name and cell phone number off of facebook
facebook addict #2: awesome, now you can totally stalk her
facebook addict
Noun. (See also facebook slut). A person who spends more time one face book making "friends" than spending time in the real word interacting with their real life friends.
Bec's become a facebook addict. She's more interested in increasing her friends count than spening time with us people who see her in person.
facebook addict
one who is more obsessed with checking their wall posts, comments, chatting with people, liking statuses, taking social interview questions, playing farmville, quoting song lyrics, laughing at inside jokes, putting up pictures of themselves with gang signs, randomly adding people they've never actually met but have 20 mutual friends, "curiously reading" other people's profiles, or poking people than actually getting work, homework, or a social life in order to live.
facebook addict
person who has no social life other than spending time logging into facebook
facebook addiction syndrome
Never being able to leave facebook.. On it day and night.. Staying up late.. Even when you know things havent changed and it stays the same. When you decide to play a game for hours that your eyes start getting swollen and red and bags under them.. When a friend asks you to go to a movie but you decline because you have to see the next update on your friends status.
Facebook Addicts
All the people who are online when you log in at 2 am expecting to be the only one connected.
I'll log in later so Katy doesn't see me online and start wanting to chat.
Later: "Oh shit, Katy is fucking online, plus half of my fucken friend list!!
Freaking facebook addicts!
FaceBook Aholic
A person who is addicted to poasting, status commenting, and lurking on the social networking site FaceBook.
Facebook appsaphobia
The excessive desire to avoid accepting applications for fear of getting a virus on your computer.
Please don't send me applications, invitations, drinks, farm animals and such on Facebook because I suffer from Facebook appsaphobia and I'll never join.
I know I am. It starts of with a simple exploration of your friends on the site and suddently you are logging on 10 times a day to see if any of your friends have made updates to their profile, changed their relationship status or have posted new videos or articles.
Define your goals on Facebook – Hmm … I never really had any goals with Facebook. Although maybe my goal should be to reach 5,000 friends. That surely would get me to login more frequently. WikiHow suggests just logging in to check on friends’ birthdays, keep track of old friends, etc. Once you catch yourself going off track, log off. If only it was that easy!
Admit you have a problem – This sounds like the first step to any other addiction. WikiHow suggests that you ask yourself “What did I just accomplish by checking Facebook?” Ha! If only I had that much self-control over my Facebook addiction. Well, at least I admit to it!
Think of other things you could be doing – Duh! This is a no brainer. I could be at the gym, socializing in the real world or a million other things but there is a reason I logged on in the first place. I’m starting to think that these suggestions are totally useless!
Make a Facebook Schedule – Seriously? If you find yourself scheduling Facebook into your daily schedule, this should be a serious warning sign. WikiHow suggests that “after each Facebook goal, write down how much time and at what frequency you’ll need to be on Facebook to achieve that goal.” Are they serious? Based on the calculations they suggested, you end up using Facebook for 6 hours and 20 minutes a week. I think this is still a relatively significant amount of time, although I spend much more time on the site.
Find a substitute – This one is good. Facebook taking up too much time? Find another site that isn’t as good! WikiHow says “if you find you’re at a computer during critical relapse time, find another website to log onto and read instead of Facebook.” Facebook relapse? This is a little crazy.
Leave Facebook – This should have been number one! If you are spending way too much time on Facebook, quit cold turkey. It’s like having your cell phone turned off for 24 hours. Once you do it, you will realize how dependent you have become and think twice about your usage.
So how much time do you spend on Facebook? Has Facebook become an addiction for you?
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a stalkers dream come true
facebook addict #1: dude you know that hot girl who lives upstairs, i totally got her screen name and cell phone number off of facebook
facebook addict #2: awesome, now you can totally stalk her
facebook addict
Noun. (See also facebook slut). A person who spends more time one face book making "friends" than spending time in the real word interacting with their real life friends.
Bec's become a facebook addict. She's more interested in increasing her friends count than spening time with us people who see her in person.
facebook addict
one who is more obsessed with checking their wall posts, comments, chatting with people, liking statuses, taking social interview questions, playing farmville, quoting song lyrics, laughing at inside jokes, putting up pictures of themselves with gang signs, randomly adding people they've never actually met but have 20 mutual friends, "curiously reading" other people's profiles, or poking people than actually getting work, homework, or a social life in order to live.
facebook addict
person who has no social life other than spending time logging into facebook
facebook addiction syndrome
Never being able to leave facebook.. On it day and night.. Staying up late.. Even when you know things havent changed and it stays the same. When you decide to play a game for hours that your eyes start getting swollen and red and bags under them.. When a friend asks you to go to a movie but you decline because you have to see the next update on your friends status.
Facebook Addicts
All the people who are online when you log in at 2 am expecting to be the only one connected.
I'll log in later so Katy doesn't see me online and start wanting to chat.
Later: "Oh shit, Katy is fucking online, plus half of my fucken friend list!!
Freaking facebook addicts!
FaceBook Aholic
A person who is addicted to poasting, status commenting, and lurking on the social networking site FaceBook.
Facebook appsaphobia
The excessive desire to avoid accepting applications for fear of getting a virus on your computer.
Please don't send me applications, invitations, drinks, farm animals and such on Facebook because I suffer from Facebook appsaphobia and I'll never join.
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