No more facebook
 

I recently deleted my facebook. I have found my productivity has increased a lot! While not so much in general but I can actually do work on the computer now... Before I had such a problem with essays I had to pretty well stick to libraries and writing out by hand and only writing up the final draft on computer.

Its pretty funny being at an age where eveeeryone one has facebook and not being in the loop of it. Its really not so bad. In fact its really good as it gives you distance from people. I don't wanna hear about some ones day every day no matter how much I like them and hearing about so much stuff can be a little much. Related to being bombarded with too much information I find getting to know people is different when facebook exists. I get bored of people much quicker depending if I have them on facebook or not. You end up knowing too much about a person too quickly I find and it doesn't match the natural flow I enjoy when getting to know some one. It annoys me especially since its not really the person itself I get bored of its just the process in which I do it is not really satisfying.

You may be asking why not just use it in moderation etc etc. To me the cons can almost never outweigh the positives no matter how much I use it. It is not really an issue for me either. I can contact people that I want to by cell or in real life and losing communication with people I would not keep in contact with normally isn't a bad thing for me. It lets me focus my energy more on people that actually affect me instead of caring about prior relationships.

It may sound strange but everything is much more real with out Facebook. I don't get only the cream of the crop of what people say and idealized images of peoples lives. Maybe I shouldn't be so effected by social networking and that business but I think it is possible for me to just not use it. Its worth mentioning that a lot of these social network issues of warping reality are a lot more subtle then people can realize. Especially as a teenager where you are developing your character a whole lot. You are in a state of such irrationality no matter how much you can understand in your head that things on facebook aren't the truth your subconscious tells you something else completely.

Being in a mood of change (and motivated by being less distracted and doing better in university) I thought deleting my facebook account would be a real good idea.

I probably go on Facebook once every couple weeks, although I was on it alot in high school. Some people are still on there like crazy though. I thought the novelty would have worn off by now.

Depends on the age. I had 120 friends on facebook and at peak times about 30 or 40 of them would be online chat. Thats a 3rd of my friends being on at one time -everyday

Yeah some people get out of hand with it, although I guess it's their choice if that's how they wanna spend their time.

I hate those people that compete for amount of friends. If I talked to you twice in high school what's the point of adding me on facebook years later?

You've inspired me. I'm gonna delete my facebook account right now.

I'm really not on Facebook all that much, but I really do need it. It's the only reliable place I can see audition information for shows in the area, keep in touch with all seven theatre companies in the area and what they're up to, and stuff like that.

I never leave the chat on, always appear offline, and if I really want to talk to someone, I'll either call them or send them a message, last resort.

I just can't dispense with Facebook, though, because I use it for semi-professional networking.

Actually, I realized that there are a lot of people who i can only contact through fb, so I'm gonna delete it after I get all of their numbers.

ha! delete facebook?! and become a sub-human?!

i think not!

I deleted facebook for an entirely different reason. I was upset about not having really any friends at all and seeing the people I used to know talk about their awesome adventures on facebook. I felt really depressed every time I went on, so I deleted it.

I sympathize with that. However, i think some of it is because i don't take pictures of every ****ing social gathering in my life. How do these people take 200 pictures of themselves walking to the park or at a house party? Like stuff like that doesn't even come to mind, I would rather not give people access to judge me based on stuff like that.

Only girls take pictures in my exerience. Literally not one guy I know carries around a camera at parties, or takes pictures on their phone or whatever. Not sure if that's just here though. I've never tagged myself in a picture either.

I think its an age thing. I am 17 how old are you if you don't mind me asking.

I have around 3-4 friends that I text, and all of the others I talk to on Facebook. For me, it's perfect. Most of them I like contacting every now and then, and can keep in touch with, but am not close enough with to wanna give them my number. I also get to mingle in the fragrance community, which is fantastic.

21. It was the same through high school too though.

Well I'm on facebook whenever I have time.
Same goes with forums and MSN Messenger.
I'm not the kind of person who HAS to check his e-mail and so on.
Now that I have a blackberry it will happen, regardless of if I want to. But that doesn't mean I'm looking at it all friggin' day. When I'm at a festival or with friends, I just don't care. When I have to do something more important, I'll check it later.
Doesn't change the fact that I do see a lot of people around me who are somewhat addicted to facebook and other social networking sites. I think I can safely say I'm not. But I'm glad they're there! Most of my friends live far away from me so it's easy keeping an eye on how they're doing without having to call them every day. That wouldn't be doable.

So I like facebook, but if it ****s with your daily business, it's a good idea not to use it alltogether :).

I pretty much only log in to Facebook when I get an email alert that someone has messaged me or sent me a friend request. It's useful for staying connected with family and old classmates who I otherwise might lose touch with but other than that I find it pretty useless. I've never understood those people who are on it all the time.

Exactly what you said; Useful for staying connected with people that are hard to stay in touch with because your lives are so different. It's sort of a worldwide forum to me. You can post stuff and people will read it and reply to it. I've had quite a few real life meetings since I've started actively using facebook (since this spring or something).
Another thing that's neat; It's easy to upload pics from my BB to Facebook so it's quite nice to share interesting stuff you see, immediately. The "oh I really have to tell *insert name* about this" has gotten an entirely new definition.

Also I've added a 'now playing' photo album to facebook. Whenever I play a record, I just take a picture of the record player and the sleeve, like so:
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...55568342_n.jpg
And it's nice to get replies to that :).

facebooks just a waste of time unless you use it n the right way...connect with people that are not apart of your eery day life

I've been using Facebook less and less throughout this year and now I barely use it at all only to wish some people a happy birthday or for event invitations. Some of my friends are doing the same and it makes me realise that not only has Facebook had it's day in the sun but social networking in general. I have a Google+ account and to be honest I've done nothing with it, haven't even uploaded a profile picture, because I just have no interest in it and I don't see it offering anything that Facebook hasn't already.

I can't bring myself to delete my Facebook account at the moment so I'll keep it for now and just look at it occasionally. I've been through MySpace, Bebo and now Facebook and I've no problem going back to the way things were before all those came along, unless something new and different comes along that's worth my time.

i was rabidly commenting on people's statuses for a while

then MB happened and fb has been relegated to pokes, only "urgent" messages and photos (and no, I don't take pics of me eating a sandwich)

Hmm not sure then maybe its just the timing of it. 4 years is a significant part of facebooks history. It could also be a demographic thing too although we are both Canadian not sure. Probably doesn't matter all that much.

I am glad you guys find good use out of facebook. It is clear though that its definitely not for me.

It is interesting though how big of a pain it is to ACTUALLY delete you account. You have to search through all of these things and eventually you find a thing allowing you too deactivate your account. However that doesn't actually delete it you have to look for something else. Eventually you find it and you click delete blah blah blah and then it doesn't actually delete it for 14 days... It just deactivates it for 2 weeks and if you don't log back in THEN finally it deletes your account.

Also it may be worth mentioning that there are some privacy issues that may affect some people here. It doesn't bother me but facebook has royalty free rights to literally any content (pictures videos etc) you post on facebook. I understand they couldn't really do anything with this content very publicly because it would cause a backlash in their community but it is interesting that they have that power to begin with. Anyone know why they can do this or why they do this at all?

I started using The Facebook when it was exclusive at like ... only 20 colleges or less and was not open to the public. I've had my account for ... 7 years or so now. It has changed tremendously every couple of years. But I'm still there. I still check it often but it's not as ... Something changed. It used to be easier for people to see your public posts (once they started news feeds), and now people set their feeds so only their 3-4 best friends out of the 500 they have can see their posts, and they can choose not to see my posts.

I was always unpopular at school (the nerds shunned me :tramp:), and facebook was a step up when I got to college. I spend upwards of an hour every time I get on FB reading the news feed catching up until I get back to where I left off. I comment on as much as I can, try to stay relevant, but I hardly get any notifications. I think I can relate with Loose Lips here, but I can't bring myself to delete my page. It doesn't bring me down that miuch, but I still feel bleh reading everyone having fun, seeing everyone's pictures, all that. My closest friends don't use facebook. So that's probably why.

I agree with Stijn that it's sort of like a worldwide forum. I've been considering making my posts viewable by Everyone (in the world) to get a little more commentary on articles I find interesting, but I don't want employers or anyone judging my character by my page. Because I share a lot of interesting articles, youtube videos, funny pictures and hardly ever do they get comments. That's one of the big reasons I hang out here. At least some people here care about some of the music I enjoy.

Heh. Makes me think of this Onion story I read a couple days ago.

I'm on it constantly!

Great original post. Got me thinking, it did.
I'd have to echo the sentiment, that Facebook may be the internet's biggest distraction, unless your hormones are at boiling point.

I can relate to other points Odyshape alluded to also. Being in constant interaction with those on your Facebook friends list can cause them to grow stale a lot quicker than it would in a world outwith social media.

I feel I experienced this with a girl. Ironically, I started talking to her on Facebook, snaking in there after her relationship status changed. It gave me added confidence, talking to her from the comfort of my home, whilst hiding my true emotions behind my laptop and playing it cool.
We met up a few times, and things were going great. I was intending on asking her to be my girlfriend the next time I met with her.
I haven't seen her in around two months.

We've both been busy, and whenever I'm at college, she'll be in school (She's 17 btw, I'm 18) or if she's working, I'll have a show to do, when she's free, I'm not.

anyway, our only interaction, would come over Facebook (She doesn't use the mobile much, and I always feel that I may be annoying a girl by texting/calling them out of the blue) and over time, I think we've both kind of just grown a bit bored of each other. Which is a shame, because I really do like her, but I feel that things aren't going as smoothly as the they are, so am hesitant about asking her out again. (Plus, I'm meeting with another girl)

Sorry, if this was a massive 'cool story bro' but it just kind of came out. Thanks for reading.

I feel like this about electronic communication in general. It marginalizes communication soooo much. Especially between me and people I actually know. Everything has no were to grow in a conversation like it can in a real interaction. That to me is the reason why news stories and new things on the internet grow old so quickly because everyone is trying to make up for the fact that electronic communication is so inhibiting. Like think about how quickly things on the internet get old than in real life!

Also on a side note I managed to spend 8 hours of my day today minus classes catching up on my readings and have been completely focused and not distracted... I don't know what is going on but my productivity is exponentially increasing. I am sure its not just strictly me deleting Facebook but I think it may have been a start to making me realize how much real control I have over my day. Like procrastination comes down to not having as much self control and leads to stress and leads to wanting a release which leads to facebook and kind of has a snowball effect. Doing the opposite seems to be having an opposite kind of snowball effect.

Also my niece is with me and for some reason won't stop bothering me until I insert emoticons to this message.
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24 hours in a day, 168 in a week. If you sleep 8 hours a day, that's 56 a week. Say you work 40 hours a week... Still there are 72 hours of free time (besides eating and restroom breaks). Someone broke that down for me. It seems obvious but really it helps to see it like that once.

On a similar note, sleeping 8 hours a day, every day, is literally sleeping 1/3 of your life.

If you can manage it, try just 6. Don't cold turkey or your body will try to overcompensate the next night. And you may sleep 10. It happens. But if you just take those 2 hours a day and use them, you're only sleeping 1/4 of your life, and you'll have 86 hours a week of free time!

I'm not sure if there are negative health effects of getting just 6 hours a night consistently, but some older folks that have done so say that was something they recommend as fulfilling. Same folks that tell you to pick up pennies off the ground. I think they're onto something. It's not for everyone though...

Hmm thats a real good idea! For a while I thought I needed atleast 9 hours of sleep but I have been noticing lately that it wasn't so much how much sleep but what time I went to bed and what time I got up. I almost no matter how much sleep I get feel good when I wake up around 7:30 - 8:00 after that I tend to feel quite droggy.
Ill experiment and tell ya how getting less sleep works for me.


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If you have seen the South Park episode 'Bloody Mary', Randy and his drinking problem pretty much sums up what I went through with Facebook less than a year or so ago. I've learned to control how much I go on, and using it in moderation. I know I'm in control because I'm not on there constantly and I don't have to completely eliminate it from my life. My secret was not using the games or apps. So when I go on FB, it's strictly to communicate. So if there is no one to talk to, or I've finished my conversations, I can log out and not be distracted.

Whatever floats your boat, though.

I figure this may be relevant.

6.5 hours of sleep it is tonight