A week ago I temporarily deactivated my FB account. I needed to stay focussed on some other important jobs and it’s too easy to lose hours on the various sites and general internetting that I do. So I have entered a period of what I thought would be web deprivation.
However, I’m here to report that it really hasn’t been as bad as I thought – the first two days were the worst. A FB friend sent me a text message on day 2 asking how I was coping…I told him ‘crap’. Then after another day or so I started to notice how much I was getting done (not blogging obviously). I caught up on some work I was behind with, I listened to some teleclasses and audiobooks while I was working and got a little bit inspired to do some other things. It’s been good. Really it has.
I have to confess that I do pop back to Facebook every few days to tend my farm for 15 minutes, then I shut it down again. I also had to leave it open for a day so that a friend in Egypt could add me – but I didn’t spend any time there and as soon as he’d done that I closed it down again until I’m ready to be permanently open.
I think eventually I will be able to reactivate it and just not spend as much time there, but to begin with I had to make it a bit more definite.
Go me.
Go you indeed. It has the added benefit that you now have to visit my blog in person to comment.
ReplyDeleteits amazing how much time can be asted on FB~last year i shut mine down for a while when i had revision and exams coming up, i even blogged about the evils of faceache! but what happened, got dragged back into it and now find myself wasting time when i should be reading about epitaphs of republican rome! maybe i should be a bit more strict with myself and only go on every few days.
ReplyDeletehmmmm, not sure that I could be so self-controlled. i have gone without for a few days when away on holidays....but at home i don't think i could do it!
ReplyDeleteI know Dave, I've actually been over there quite regularly...quite nice seeing your blog again.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to be strict though Laoi, that's why I thought that at least in the beginning I'd close it completely then once I feel stronger (ha ha) I'd try and just limit usage. We'll see how that works out - ahem.
Cathy if I was at home it wouldn't be such a problem really, but because I'm working full time at the moment my evenings need to spent on the business so FB was a problem.
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ReplyDeleteSome of us feel deprived of regular blog-posts.
ReplyDeleteYes Dave...I wish I knew what I was doing with all this time I apparently have now...I can't work it out.
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