Facebook. Is. Addictive.

I agree, Facebook is very addictive

So. Christina is still addicted... on the upside, well at least right now I'm not sacrificing my education to the monsterous Facebook. But once September comes around... I'm going to have to think up something constructive to curtail my addiction.

we are definitely addicted but we also do socialize a lot with a group of others there that follow the same hockey team we do so its a social network for us as well. as for the apps dont eve get us started.... lol we love our zoo and fishies

Facebook is sooo addictive its not even funny. :P
Don't forget Farmtown!!

Facebook has brought me in contact with people from my past. I moved completely away from everyone I knew when I left California & many people had moved out of my life long before that. The names I remember (not really good with names) I have looked up & found people from my past who I have gotten in contact with.

One was a neighbor boy that I grew up with until I was in 6th grade when his family moved north to San Francisco area. I have been in contact with their parents when both of my parents died, but then I decided to just message to him. It's interesting to have someone that remembers that past of my life also being an only child, I had no one to reminisce with....pretty cool.

Of course, it's a good place to stay in contact with my daughter who will post about what's going on in her life & also my horse trainer in California since my husband doesn't let me know how my horses are doing, at least I can stay in contact with her a little.

I have also looked up other people from my past, a girl from college who I had lost contact with when she moved out of state after getting married. Also gives me a chance to keep in contact & see how my other friends kids are doing (who were also friends with my daughter).

I have found businesses that have information about things that I am interested in (jewelry beading) & information on political issues that I am also interested in that keeps me up to date when I don't read my emails.

I refused to play any of the games. I don't have time for that, but when I write messages to people, it takes me a long time to put the words together, so I spend a lot of time writing to people. Most agrivating part of that (even with my email replies) is that my internet drops in signal (packets) & I will loose my internet connection & all I am writing if I can't or don't save it while I am taking a long time to compose a message. grrrr, does that make me frustrated. That happened when I was replying to my horse trainer this morning. I had spent about 4 hours putting the reply together & just before I was finished....poof.....SNAP!!!!.....grrrr!!!! Lost the whole thing & my mind just can't put the words back together after spending that much time on it.....so I gave up & went onto something else on the computer.

Right now, it's too hot outside to do anything except sit in my AC room in my house with my computer now that I have my router, so I go between FB, PC (which I really love better than FB anyday), & my emails.

Hate it when I don't have the energy to do anything else but sit here on the internet. Not that I'm addicted but just no energy to do anything else. When I find my energy, I will end up being away from my computer for days, even weeks.....just depends on life events & temperatures that I am living with.

I too am addicted to facebook, I am constantly checking my updates, inbox messages, etc etc. I once erased it only to find that 3 days later I signed in and reactivated my account.

Face book gave my computer 2 viruses and i was getting bored with hearing every little detail from "friends" i rarely talk to in real life. my mother, however, is addicted to every game on there. kind of creepy.

I was addicted to farmville. But I got sick of it. love petville. but really it has too many glitches and slows down my computer. I feel like someone is addicted to me. Thats the worst of all. when someone is addicted to another person. The need is voracious no matter what. gotta get the fix. its really hard to have someone addicted to me

Wow, what a popular thread I made!

I'm both glad that people understand my addiction to Facebook, and yet also am sad that so many others have to deal with the addictiveness too!

I'm still spending far too much time on that site. I really need to stop. The second to last time I tried to take a break from FB, I got my friend to change the password on me, but she didn't change the email address so I got into the account. This past time, she did change the password and the email address associated with the account.

I'd feel foolish, but I'm thinking I might have to do that again - especially if it messes with my academics in September!

Christina, that sounds like a very smart idea. I commend you for your determination to not let this diminish your studies, which is so important.

ive recently traded one addicton for another i was addicted to second life a virtual world where you can be anyone or anything - was there literally all teh hours apart form working and sleeping - ate at my compputer - would say to friend sowho rang me sorry im going to work or in shower cos i wanted to play the game more

now im the same wiht facebook - implay so many games i have no hope of keeping them up - I told my friend i couldnt meet her for lunch cos i had somthing on - the somthing was i had to feed my sheepdog on farmvile at a certain time or it would run away - OMG!!!!! its not even a real dog! (checks watch ...- no ive fed it today - 12 days to go and i get to keep it ) I even set my alarm so i dont forget lol - am i addicted ....i guess so ...am i avoiding doing things i should - like sorting out my life - you bet! - but im like a leaky boat - i fix one thing and i spring a leak somwhere else...... fix SI - self med wiht food - stop taht - find second life - quit second life - mostly and play facebook games ....... aaarrrggghhh!!!

and Christina if it seems i make light of this - its cos if i really look in medusas mirror im afraid ill be turned to stone and then crumble.... RL is scary and unpredictable - the games arnt .....so i hide there.....

i think if you say - if you do this then you can go online for an hour - then thats fine - but i cant

whats the answer ? dunno.....

The only way I can handle social networking addiction is by deactivating my accounts and trying not to reactivate them again.

It is DAMN hard.

I kinda want to start a FB account, but after reading this thread I'm not sure if its such a good idea anymore! LOL

Also, I know for a fact that my mom has an account on FB and I am paranoid that she will find me on there and find out stuff about my life that I do not want her to know.

DON'T DO IT!
DON'T DO IT!
DON'T DO IT!

Any questions? Dial 1-800-DON'T-DO-IT

Facebook. Good Subject. The young adults who don't think that a potential employer will look up their facebook account and see them in all their glory, doing all the things that any typical young adult would do - one employer saw his potential new hire very intoxicated being pushed around in a shopping cart at Target. Needless to say, potential new hire was scratched off the list.

I am sure that the internet has provided a plethora of material to fuel the addictions of those who are susceptible. The question becomes, am I using the internet in a manner that does not adversely affect me socially, financially, or spiritually?

After 4+ years on Facebook...yesterday I took the plunge and got off. It was becoming such a time bandit. No, it was becoming more important that my life. It was fine at first when I used it as a tool to communicate with the students in my college ministry program. But I kept it even after I left that ministry. I got so that I had literal withdrawals if I was away too long. Right now my stomach is in knots and I am literally feeling sick because I can't be on there. But, it is my choice and I have to get over this addiction. I don't want to be addicted to anything and I quit drugs, smoking, and drinking much more easily than I have been able to quit Facebook.

If you aren't on...and if you don't have a good reason to be on...stay off.

Peace and hope

Kevin

Some people sign up on fb with a name they have made up. then they can tell only the people they want what the fb account is. Family members and potential employers cannot find you that way. so if you do not have an addictive personality and would like to be on fb but do not want employers or family members finding you, just make up a name, as I did.

Facebook = evil...
Yes totally addictive.. and YES I HAVE AN ACCOUNT.

For me it's checking up on ex BF's that is the evil part... love all my old school friends contacting me.. but so far mostly FB has caused hurt and frustration.

Ahh Facebook.. I dunno if I'm addicted to it, but it is my go-to place when I have nothing else to do. Since the new msn has the ability to link those accounts I find myself on facebook less as I was mostly only on there to talk to the friends I had anyway. I don't really know why I have a facebook.. but mostly it's only for keeping track of my family's thousand parties (they have at least one party a month) and it's a way for my family to stay connected to me (I hate using the phones.. I have no idea why but my Dad is like that too.. it's either face-to-face or e-mail me).

80% of my friends on there are family and then 19% are old classmates I never spoke to in school in the first place. That last 1% are the the three "friends" I actually talk to whenever I see them online.

I got rid of a lot of apps and games. I used to do a lot of those notes and quizzes but got bored (my attention span is limited). I'm addicted to the computer as a whole however, but what I spend my time doing on it usually varies.

I was really addicted to the facebook games for over a year...then I finally gave them up. But I totally know where you are coming from!

Hmm.. This thread got me thinking about how many "friends" I'd have on my list if I deleted all the "nobodies" off my list. I have 83 as it is, and almost half of those (33) are nobodies (nobodies being unrelated classmates who I never talk to anymore). Then I have 42 in the family category (19 of which I don't even know cause my family is so far extended).

So if I did the math..

83 - 33 - 19 = 31. :l and I could dissect this number even further if I really felt like getting picky..

Same here for me actually.
I only have 61 "friends". Most of them, arround 22 or so, are my old classmates, and I only keep in touch maybe with 8 of them, and not that often anyway. 7 are my family members. I somehow have three people who are my sisters friends, I'm not really sure why they've added my or why I've accepted them... There're 8 former roommates, and I only keep in touch with 3 of them. 5 people with whom I've lectures together, though I only talk with two of them through facebook. And other people don't fit into any of those categories and I only talk with two out of them... so.... I could only leave 20 people among my 'friends'.

Though about the addiction, I don't think I'm addicted to it. Just like LittleForgetMeNot I go there when maybe I'm bored or so, just check on my family maybe or those couple of people I keep in touch with from my home country and stuff like that... But I never play any games there, though I do like to join groups and like stuff .

It is a bit usefull for me right now, when I'm away from home, though I do talk with my family through msn mostly (phone is a bit too expensive) but sometimes it's better through facebook... sometimes put a song there that we all now about and stuff like that. It's also nice to find out what my old classmates are doing in their lives and so on.
Though when I get back home it will be useful for me to keep facebook to check on people whom I met here where I'm studying, it's somehow easier than writing e-mails and most of them don't have msn, they use skype, but I don't use skype, so there's only facebook left for us .

I also joined pages of things and places I like and it's a lot easier to follow news about them through facebook than signing for newsletters from each of them.

Mmmm... I deleted all my friends until I was left with four. Yeah. FOUR. I figured out that I hate all but six people at my school, and three of them don't have Facebooks. Add those three to my maybe-boyfriend Jesse, and you get four.

Never tried facebook games much, but I don't really have an addictive personality. And I only have about 6 friends.

Uh, I mean 5. Guess my ex-girlfriend just removed me.

Keep a journal of your time, like dieters do with calories. EVERY time you go on, log your minutes.

Now look at those minutes/hours. Were they worth it? Satisfying? Wasn't there something you would rather have done?

Add all the time up for a week, then average that and see what the daily average time is. That is now your goal- to be under that amount. Each day, try to be on less time. Maybe even try 5 minutes less. Perhaps this will make you think about which part of FB you can really go without. Maybe you will be able to tell what is most important to you about FB, and give yourself minutes for that.

And also go through your friends list again... come on, do you really need all of those people??

I'm not saying this is easy- I get it. I had to delete my account right away as I am impulsive and would want to comment on every photo. I just do not need to be lurking there, not good at all for me..

All those minutes you are adding up, multiply them times days, weeks, months, years... AAGHHH!

Or, here's one last idea- have a Facebook "Sponsor". Every time you feel like getting on FB, call him/her and have them talk you out of it! Or put a quarter in a jar for everytime you DON'T go on, and then spend it!

Or just ignore this post because I really don't know what I am talking about! I'm just addicted to responding to people so I don't have to do other things!!