Un-friending Facebook week 2: Facebook who?
July 10th 2010 04:46
No, I no longer cruise the site like a cop in a doughnut bar, I just got on to say Congrats to my sister-in-law who just had a baby boy. Other than that I have been completely unconcerned with the goings on of good ole FB.
I have so much more time on my hands. I don't think people realize how many minutes they spend doing things. If you added up the couple of hours a day/night you spend watching television, the couple of hours spaced out over a day we may spend on Facebook (I know, maybe a lot more for some of you) we really do have a lot of time on your hands.
For some of you that time may be spent clipping your nose hairs or making sure that your DVD collection is in alphabetical order. Either way, you will have the time to do those things!
Just today, I chatted with two friends I hadn't spoken to in a while. I cleaned the back patio, did tons of laundry and de-weeded the bathtub garden. Not exactly living life in the fast lane I know, but this is stuff I enjoy and my girls can do with me. I even got my column in a day early, which hasn't happened in months. You can find that HERE.
I know it must be hard for some to understand, this addiction to Facebook. But as a stay-at-home mum you have little bits of time during the day where you can vege out, so to speak. And I'm sure most mums would agree with me that after having multiple children, you sometimes completely lose who you were and end up finding relaxation in convenient ways. T.V., the internet, soap operas; all just ways to shut down for a minute and stop having to think of a million different things at once.
I even know of some full-time workers who were on Facebook twice as much as I was, so what does that tell you? We all need that escape.
But what we have forgotten, is what the world was like as short as 20 years ago. Television was practically the only thing that could lure us away from our lives...and it did. But we didn't have the multitude of distractions available at our fingertips today.
I sometimes feel sorry for the generations born in the 80's and 90's. They are almost predestined to be addicted to the computer, iPods, iPads, iPhones, and I'm sure there are things I don't even know about. And you know what? I don't care. I have found life again...and it's the best friendship I've made in a long time.
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