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An 8 step program to rid your life of Facebook.
Good morning. You have taken the first step of deactivating your Facebook. Perhaps it was tough to get yourself to do it — to get past that last screen where Facebook tries to tell you who will miss you. They post pictures of loved ones, acting like once you leave their precious site that those loved ones will somehow leave your life. Again, that is what they want you to think. They want you to think that in order to be social you need Facebook. They want you to think that once you deactivate that you can not contact those people, hence they will miss you. Chances are, you are moved by that, as there are probably some people on there who you have developed strong relationships with. However, if the relationships are really that strong, you will not be leaving them, and hence, they will not have reason to miss you.
So, now that you have deactivated, you are ready to face the real challenge. Not going back. For this reason, I have created an eight step program.
1. First, take a deep breath and congratulate yourself. It was not easy to leave a site that you have probably logged countless hours on. Facebook should have came with a clock to count the time you were on there. I would not be surprised if some people have spent in excess of 100 days total on that site. And, totaled throughout life, one could easily spend a year of their life on Facebook. Scary huh? Some people have multiple profiles, but that is not you, so now you can congratulate yourself.
2. Treat yourself to something nice. Make yourself a good breakfast, buy yourself a nice new book, go to the park and take some pictures (remember: you don’t have to post them to Facebook! They are yours to cherish).
3. Do something productive. Chances are if you have just got rid of Facebook you have a lot you want to do. Maybe start writing a book. Make up the house, light some candles, put on some relaxing music. Sit down and create some goals. Do a couple of homework assignments. See how productive you can be when you are not being nagged by that mental voice that keeps telling you to take a break and check your Facebook.
4. Get away from the computer. For many people a $1200 computer is really a Facebook machine. Chances are you see it all the time at school or at the coffee shop. People using a Macbook Air or similar expensive device almost exclusively to check their Facebook. Perhaps most of your computer time was spent checking Facebook. So, try to get away from the computer for a while. Go for a walk, and maybe leave that cell phone home as well. This is your time.
5. Celebrate each day away from the ball & chain. Keep note of every day you are not on Facebook. When people ask you if you have Facebook, tell them that you have not been on it for (insert amount of days here). Be proud when you say it. If they ask why, tell them your views on it. Tell them what you have accomplished with out it. Keep track of what you have done since getting rid of it. I promise you that your life will in many ways improve.
6. Find a non-Facebook hobby. Sometimes you may find yourself bored and drawn to the computer. Perhaps you will think “there is no where else to go other than Facebook.” That is very wrong, however. The internet is full of interesting blogs, webpages, and learning tools. Facebook is in no way, shape, or form a learning tool. In fact, one could say that with all the political propaganda and skewed statistics, Facebook actually DESTROYS THE MIND.
7. Clear your computers Cashe, History, and Cookies. You do not want Facebook appearing ANYWHERE on your computer as you type a website. It is all too easy to hit enter and find yourself reactivating it. You must get rid of the temptation, especially at the beginning. Remember, in many ways Facebook is a SERIOUS obsession, like alcohol or drugs. You may not want to admit it, but if you feel drawn to it in such a manner there is no doubt that Facebook is indeed an awful obsession. Restrain yourself!
8. If you long to be social, be social. Facebook is not social. In fact, Facebook calls itself a social networking site, but is, in reality, an asocial networking site. In reality you are networking with other asocial people who are hellbent on getting the most friends possible. Sorry to sound like Yoda, but by Creating an army of friends social does not make you. Facebook does not allow one to express their deeper self. While you can share photos and short statuses, Facebook runs afoul of giving a person a way to truly express themselves. There are far better ways to express your creativity to the world than through Facebook. You don’t need it to be social, and the reality is, by being on Facebook you may actually have been less social than you would have been without it.
It’s shaping up to be a beautiful new life. A life without Facebook.
http://www.facebookdetox.com/2012/03/8-step-program-to-rid-your-life-of.html
>>>FB is useless, it is simply social networking and is for bored, self absorbed people who want to think they are important because people are paying attention to them.<<<
You should really get a Facebook account. You’d be a natural at it.
Hahahah Ouch that's gonna leave a mark.
Hey Whutey and Eaker, have you noticed Sparky can go on and on about how useless Facebook is yet he claims to never have had an account. I am amazed he keeps posting he has contradicted himself at least a dozen times but still claims he is consistent. I will give him that though, he is consistently wrong. Hahahah
I deleted my FB account long ago.
Wee Sparky doesn’t like Facebook and sees no value in it even though a billion people disagree with him.
It is a sad thing when one, like Sparky thinks they can have their own facts. You can’t as facts are facts.
Facebook is here to stay unless or until it is replaced by something better whether Sparky likes it or not.
Apparently Facebook is beyond his grasp as clearly debating on FR is way past his pay grade.
It seems many FB users have a hard grasping the fact that the world will survive without seeing their pictures on FB.
You should really get a Facebook account. You’d be a natural at it
Another FB user who can only make ad hominem attacks.
It would seem that I have kicked a modern idol and those worshipping it are very upset.
Actually no it didn't, it just another FB user who is upset that someone doesn't worship his FB idol.
No, I haven't contradicted myself once, I do think however, your reading skills are lacking, probably due to being on FB.
And I find it funny that the FB users are running to what is a really an anti-FB thread to defend it as if it is really important in life.
But keep trying-Sparky.
Why Facebook Is For Losers!
Posted in the Pennington Gap Forum
Everybody has Facebook!:) It is the new thing and Myspace is a thing of the past! It is cool! It is hip! It is what everybody is doing and when people found this out, they wanted in on the action!
You started adding your friends and talking with them! You started adding what little photos you had of yourself and your family! You were so excited because you are putting your life out there for everyone to see!:) Now you feel like your boring life , has meaning again. You feel like you are back in High School. No need for a High School reunion, YOU HAVE FACEBOOK!
I have a lot of problems with facebook and I will tell you why!
Facebook is now one of the major reasons for divorce in this country. This is not my opinion, it is a fact! Another interesting fact is that these marriage’s are not new! Some people have been married over 30 years and claim that after they both created a facebook profile, that their marriage went down the drain. It can be compared to what reality t.v. shows does to those couples who have their own show! People add their old friends, they talk about the past. They leave sweet little comments just enough to not cross the line but hint at the point. The bottom line is that Facebook creates a disaster for any marriage. This is a fact!
Another problem I have with facebook is that people tend to worship theirself! They take more photo’s now than they have ever took in their life. You see them in the clubs posing while someone snaps a shot! Young girls love the “ Mirror “ shot where they make a silly face and look like a complete idiot and post them all over their page! LOL! I get so angry when I see these ridiculous photos!
People who use facebook want/or need attention! It is this simple. They are selfish and they are thinking about their self so much that they seem to lose touch with reality! Anything that they post on facebook, they are posting it so other people can see it. This means that they want others to know something about their life! Do you think that they are going to post something really bad about their own self! No! They are looking for attention from others and they want others to post on their wall posts. It is so common to see guy’s post something about how he is sad because of something happening in his life and then reading other girls comment under his post with comments like “ Aw Sweetie I will be praying for you and hope things get better in your life ! “ Then the guy in his head is thinking “ Ahh somebody cares about me “ You see , the post had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the situation, but it had more to do with the REACTION he was getting from his friends! It’s all about selfishness!
The thing that really gets to me is when I see people posting pics of their children! Would you really want to give facebook the permission to own photos of your kids? That’s exactly what you are doing when you post them because you have just gave facebook ownership of the pics you posted and they can do anything they want to do with them! You should never expose your children online! Never! The sad thing is that the reason people post the pics of their children is not about the kids! No way! It is about the attention they are looking for from others on their page! They want people to comment on their pics because they want attention from others!
I deleted my facebook a while ago because of these reasons! More and more people started using facebook and I saw the way they were using it and it really made me not want to use facebook anymore!
I don’t need attention from others and I wish to keep my life private! When my soon to be wife found out that I had a facebook account she was so angry with me! She made me swear not to ever post a picture of her on it and to delete it! Facebook is evil in more ways than you think! For some, it changes their whole entire life! Do you people know that a Christian woman murdered her child over farmville?
Don’t Use Facebook!
http://search.aol.com/aol/search?enabled_terms=&s_it=comsearch51&q=Facebook+is+for+losers
That is the point that seems to have escaped your mental grasp.
May 18, 2012 12:00 A.M.
The Time-Wasting Network
Facebook takes the hard work out of goofing off.
By Rich Lowry
‘If time be of all things the most precious,” Benjamin Franklin said, “wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” But he had never heard of a status update.
Facebook is the world’s foremost purveyor of information you shouldn’t care about. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what Henry Ford was to the automobile. He has mastered it on an industrial scale and is riding it to a vast fortune. At more than $100 billion, the valuation of Facebook equals the annual GDP of Morocco or Vietnam, countries that don’t top anyone’s list of economic powerhouses, but do actually produce some things of value.
Can 900 million people, the roughly one-eighth of the planet that uses Facebook, be wrong? If they are passing around photos of pets in party costumes, telling us whether they are having a good or bad hair day, and playing the farming-simulation game FarmVille, the answer is, “Why, yes they can!”
Facebook has transformed oversharing from an annoying habit of the poorly socialized into the very stuff of daily interactions. No thought is too banal, no event too minor, no mood too passing, no photo too embarrassing to be posted on Facebook. One of the great self-regarding egotists of all time, the late author Norman Mailer, might have blanched at the unrelenting self-exposure of it.
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Facebook has been a boon to employers vetting prospective employees and to divorce lawyers looking for incriminating evidence. Once, taking vodka shots out of the bellybutton of your friend at the bar at 2 a.m. might have been an ill-considered caper to laugh about the next day. Now the photo may well end up on your “timeline.” In the world of Facebook, everyone is his or her own personal TMZ.
None of this is to slight Zuckerberg, who saw the potential of an online network enabling mostly meaningless interactions and conceived, marketed, and grew it with the genius touch of a truly inspired entrepreneur. He is as audacious as he is brilliant in the tradition of the great American businessman. Anyone who saw the movie The Social Network surely prefers that this outsider with a hoodie rules our digital world rather than the overdog Winklevoss twins, his Harvard rivals, who went on to row in the Olympics and claim he stole their idea.
It’s not that Facebook has no redeeming value. It brings together people with similar interests who wouldn’t meet otherwise, and is a powerful organizing tool, in causes ranging from high-school reunions to Middle Eastern revolutions. And, oh yeah, it reminds you of friends’ birthdays. This is all to the good.
Yet Facebook is overwhelmingly the ephemeral chasing the trivial. The “like” and “poke” functions have an appropriately grade-school feel. (It’s hard to believe that Facebook once grew its business on the basis of its supposed cool.) The designation “friend” is often a poor simulacrum of the real thing. In a notable Atlantic magazine cover story, Nicholas Carr asked, “Is Google making us stupid?” but compared with Facebook, Google is the King James Bible. Google is the entry point to a world of news and information beyond what leftovers your old college roommate is eating for dinner tonight before taking her papillon, Princess, for a walk.
The T. S. Eliot line “distracted from distraction by distraction” could have described the temptations of 21st-century social media. Other technologies — the telephone, television, e-mail — have had the same double-edged capacity to enable work and bring people together, or fritter away time on nonsense.
Facebook tilts toward pure distraction, which is one reason a pall of doubt hangs over its post-IPO future. About half of the people in one poll say Facebook is a fad. Mark Zuckerberg is mentioned in the same breath as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, but his product is considerably more vaporous. The threat to Facebook will always be the advent of some new and even more alluring way to waste time.
— Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry(at sign)nationalreview.com. © 2012 by King Features Syndicate.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/300363/time-wasting-network-rich-lowry
The owner of the Dallas Mavericks got caught up in the hype surrounding the Facebook IPO launch a month ago and snapped up 150,000 of the social media giant’s shares, but the excitement was short-lived. Today, the gregarious self-made billionaire announced that he sold all of his shares after admitting that he took a hit in the market. ‘My thesis was wrong,’ Cuban said in a CNBC interview. ‘I thought we’d get a quick bounce just with some excitement about the stock. I was wrong, and when you’re wrong you don’t wait, you just get out. I took a beating and left.’
‘It was gambling money’: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban unloads all his 150,000 Facebook shares worth $5BILLION after ‘taking a beating’
Sorry.
I don’t have a Facebook account and never will. I just don’t have time to waste on that kind of thing.
Nor on your kind either—the sour, boring, needy kind, in other words.
Good luck to you.
Of course not as it has been replaced. If it simply disappeared with no replacement then it certainly would be greatly missed.
That is the point that seems to have escaped your mental grasp.
What has escaped your grasp is that you have been proven to be a moron on this thread and I would venture on every thread you have ever posted to.
You have a bizarre view of reality.
You initiated contact with me, not me with you.
So I guess you do have a need to get attention.
Of course not as it has been replaced. If it simply disappeared with no replacement then it certainly would be greatly missed.
No, if it disappeared it wouldn't be greatly missed.
Alot of people would have to find something else to do with their lives except posting photos of themselves, but the important things in life would remain unchanged.
[ That is the point that seems to have escaped your mental grasp.]
What has escaped your grasp is that you have been proven to be a moron on this thread and I would venture on every thread you have ever posted to.
Well another ad hominem.
You FB guys can't post a single post without one.
What has been proven is how inane FB is.
You can have your own opinion; you can't have your own facts.
Example: Pink is your favorite color = opinion.
Example: FB would be missed if it was gone = fact.
Diagnosing you as a retard is not an ad hominem, it is another fact.
Your fixation on FB is both unnatural it says everything about the shallowness of your life.
FB is simply a part of the social media and is not crucial to anything signficant in the real world.
Actually, you posted to me, on an anti-FB thread, so it is you (and your FB buddies), that have the obsession, not me.
It seems I kicked over one of your idols.
But keep posting to me and you will get a post in reply.
A lot of those sites that want you to login usin FB are really just password pfishing scams cloaked to look like legitimate webites.
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