Facebook

Today I kept track of how much of my day is spent on Facebook.  I always thought of myself as a moderate user, but I'm definitely not.  Every day I wake up at 5:30 a.m., roll out of bed and make it to work by about 6:00 a.m.  The first thing I did when I got to work was check my Facebook page on my work computer.  This is not against any rules at my office by the way.  Who's up at this hour?  Do I have any messages?  Has anyone tagged me doing anything stupid in a picture since I went to bed last night at midnight?  How's my stupid little war game, that I've been consumed with for the past two weeks, going?  I better check-in to let the 50 people in my friends list that are awake right now know I'm at work.  After about a 20-minute break, I go at it again, this time from my phone.  Status update.  Instant message.  Check inbox.  It's a never-ending cycle!  After I've cracked out on my personal account for a bit, now it's time to start posting updates and videos for my company's Facebook site.  Then it's on to my band's Facebook page.  Remember when we used to do stuff?

After leaving work, I realized that I've already spent close to an hour on Facebook and it's not even noon yet.  As soon as I get home I take a shower, get dressed and check Facebook.  Anything new?  Of course not.  I get to school 10 minutes early.  Waiting outside of the classroom for the previous class to leave sucks.  What should I do?  Oh wait, I have Facebook in my pocket.  How convenient.  I'll just kill a few minutes here, no problem.  Now I'm in class.  45 minutes have gone by.  Should I check my Facebook?  Yeah, why not? 

Finally made it home after a long day.  Time to jump on my computer for another hour of the exciting, predictable world of Facebook.  As my eyes start to cramp, I realize that I probably should look away from the screen for a bit.  Maybe I'll get out of the house and get some things done.  Three hours later, I return home.  Time to write my blog.  Before I do, I'll just open up another tab in Mozilla.  Yep, you guessed it.  The other tab is for Facebook.  All in all, I figure that about 3 1/2 hours of my day is completely wasted on Facebook.  Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg, for ruining my life.  Charlie Sheen's crack addiction has got nothing on this.