You know I am spending too much time on facebook when I let things that I read there upset me or get to me. You know I’m spending too much time on facebook when I’ve blogged about it for two or three times now.
I don’t mind the times when a thread gets so funny and interesting that it gets multiple comments from everyone and it becomes chat like. I end up thinking about those conversations hours later and still get a giggle. Those are good.
The bad is that one status that irked you so much that you didn’t even bother to comment, but you’re still thinking about it hours later anyway. That’s annoying.
That’s also disturbing when you think about the fact that you are thinking about facebook or twitter or pinterest long after you get offline and even find yourself expending emotion over stuff you run into. It’s a bit scary and sad at the same time, don’t you think?
It’s bordering on pathetic.
So I am going on a self imposed social media diet of sorts. Oh, I can’t totally get away from them, I just think I should limit the time I spend there and even more, less time thinking about things after I’m away from there.
I still do have a life offline, afterall, and it’s quite full enough as it is. But for the totally addicted and for those who are getting overwhelmed by their online life and want some semblance of order, I saw a new service in the form of MyLife.com which claims to organize all your social media interaction in one place. Frankly, I don’t know how another app can help when most email services already can consolidate and centralize where you get all your social media notifications.
So how do you manage your online interactions? Are you checking your phone all the time to see if someone replied to your tweet or if someone re-pinned your post or commented on your status update? How do you keep up? Or do you even bother?
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Staying infront of any computer device is eating most of my time… if I say I will jut check my emails and you will never knowyou were there for hours already moving fom one website to the other I know myself that I am into it but this is the only form to get connected just a bit of time management of when is thebest time again back to self discipiline.
I agree with you and I was like that for a long time, either on a computer or on a smartphone. Like I will be checking facebook while watching my favorite show on TV. Though, I feel the craze is slowly reducing for me and am able to connect to the real world a little more and am spending less time in the digital world. That began with the self-imposed smartphone ban on couch and dining table.
I try hard not to let myself get too wrapped up in it. I’ve gone to unsubscribing from a majority of my FB people and only leaving 20 or so where I can see their news feed. The feed is definitely not so exciting any more. =) I also disable the alarms on my phone so I only hear when I get called, and thus don’t interrupt precious time with my kids to check a stupid email.
I have gotten to the point of not being too much carried away by what I think are stupid or useless posts. However, I am still trying to manage being overly distracted by one interesting post.
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Whether it’s the timer on your watch, or an actual kitchen timer that “dings” when the time is up, make it a habit to start the clock as soon as you get on Facebook, and get off as soon as your time is up. Fifteen minutes might be a healthy amount of time to spend on a Facebook session.
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I usually just ignore stuff on FB and comment to those I found interesting. Though I check FB from time to time just to see what my friends are up to or if something interesting comes up
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Useful and interesting post! Golden advice.
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Social networks are like spider’s web many people find hard to get out from. Me personally spend max 1 hour per day there. I’m not really addicted or just have something to do in real life.. I don’t know. It’s a personal matter..
Good luck! Be real!
I spend about 3 hour a day in facebook. Thaks for article. I hope it helps me
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I’ve turned off all the facebook notifications that were being sent to my phone all the time and now I just ty to attract myself with a good book or an afternoon outside with my dog or riding the bike. When you stop thinking and scrolling facebook without any purpose you become happy about yourself, your achievements, smartly spent time, etc. Good luck.
If you are online and you put more time on doing social media activities, particularly facebook, you will probably not be able to work well. In my case, when I work online, I prioritize my work then after then, all my time would be for facebook.
It’s just a matter of self discipline, if you don’t have it, that’s quite impossible to resist!
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social media sites are an addiction, once you are logged in you would never like to go offline or even to move for any work but there are many other important jobs to be done so time management is necessary. Just make a schedule and follow that strictly, specify some time for them and move behind when time is up (of course you will do this unwillingly but you have to).
You know – you’ll be very fat if you spending much time on computer. It’s not a good idea.
I have no problems with that. But my kids do! I think they live in that d*** Facebook! How can I get them out of there? What can I do? How to bring them in the real life back?