facebook

Well I have been on face book for just under a year.

I discovered it in the early days of 2009.

It has been a source of a lot of fun and enjoyment, but has also been a tremendous drain on my time and I have been addicted to it in an unhealthy way ... especially the games.

I like to know what others are doing, and there is a lot of humour out there, but for most people the story continues to be the same.

eg one friend posts pictures of her and her friends and their various drinking outings. How many drunken pictures of her do I really need to look at, making suggestive poses to the camera?

How many times do I politely return something that has been sent to me only to be sucked back into a game or application I am either not interested in or do not have the willpower to resist.

Right now and in the future I will have so little free time to myself, why waste it on garbage.

It is so easy to waste time, before you know it it has gone.

So yesterday while feeling particularly low ... lack of sleep, social occasion the day before, Christmas not far gone etc. I decided my best option was to go cold turkey.

Cold turkey on the games that I have spent most of the last year playing ... hours and hours and hours unnecessarily wasted.

How many time have I tried to gently ease off them? Many?

The only thing that really works is to just delete them and all temptation is gone.

So on the 1st of January I removed the farm town and farm ville application completely, deleted a whole heap of friends and seriously considered closing off face book entirely (perhaps only temporarily).

I may still take this approach... am still deciding.

A lot of the information that is on there is no longer true or no longer applies ... and although I would like to announce my pregnancy I don't know how to handle the fact that some of my friends have very personally experienced the loss of a baby and I can't tell some people without telling others.