I don't know how many more times, I shall write on how to reduce spending time on facebook.
Disclaimer - This comes out of my mind, I have nothing against facebook, they are doing a great fabulous job.
Sometimes, you just spend way too much time on facebook. This results in
1. waste of personal time.
- could have engaged in more productive work during that time.
2. reading stuffs which are not necessary.
- sometimes, you may end up with informative stuffs, but most of the time, I felt it was gutter waste.
3. Jealously / let down.
- sometimes, people get let down, by seeing others posting rosy pictures about their life.
- reality may be totally different, but people do get influenced into thinking they are somewhat inferior than the people posting rosy updates.
4. Nothing to talk about.
- Once you meet the friend in person you no more have anything to talk because, each day we are seeing so much of one another's update, we just end up cursing the person, if he appears in front of you. I think this holds relevance.
5. Self trumpeting (boasting).
- May be, I too engage in this, posting pictures about my travel. I can improve.
So I figured couple of tricks which could help me reduce time on facebook. Its not about unfriending or de-activating your account, but something very simple.
Facebook is based on push model. Each of the other person's update is fed to you. You are made to read other people's updated automatically (by default). How about converting it into a pull model. Where you pull up and see interested person's updates whenever you need instead of being fed. You can do this by un-following people's feeds/updates.
I tried this, it worked wonders. There is a saying which goes "Out of sight is out of mind". Anyone whom you do not interact on a regular basis was forgotten by me. Pulling updates from all the people would take so much of time that, I stopped doing it. Which made my time spent on facebook equally boring, thus reducing my time usage on facebook to a great extent.
Putting friends on restricted list ensures none of your updates get published to them. As a result, people tend to think you are inactive on facebook and you go out of their minds.
Turning off chat for all the people or turning it on for specific people makes sure, you do not end up pinging each and every person whose status is green. This too saves lot of time.
I have saved loads of time plus loads of money via data plan after I have made these changes. Hopefully you too put your time into something more meaningful than facebook, like, reading a book by Rabindranath Tagore, translated to English, how about that?
Cheers,
Disclaimer - This comes out of my mind, I have nothing against facebook, they are doing a great fabulous job.
Sometimes, you just spend way too much time on facebook. This results in
1. waste of personal time.
- could have engaged in more productive work during that time.
2. reading stuffs which are not necessary.
- sometimes, you may end up with informative stuffs, but most of the time, I felt it was gutter waste.
3. Jealously / let down.
- sometimes, people get let down, by seeing others posting rosy pictures about their life.
- reality may be totally different, but people do get influenced into thinking they are somewhat inferior than the people posting rosy updates.
4. Nothing to talk about.
- Once you meet the friend in person you no more have anything to talk because, each day we are seeing so much of one another's update, we just end up cursing the person, if he appears in front of you. I think this holds relevance.
5. Self trumpeting (boasting).
- May be, I too engage in this, posting pictures about my travel. I can improve.
So I figured couple of tricks which could help me reduce time on facebook. Its not about unfriending or de-activating your account, but something very simple.
Facebook is based on push model. Each of the other person's update is fed to you. You are made to read other people's updated automatically (by default). How about converting it into a pull model. Where you pull up and see interested person's updates whenever you need instead of being fed. You can do this by un-following people's feeds/updates.
I tried this, it worked wonders. There is a saying which goes "Out of sight is out of mind". Anyone whom you do not interact on a regular basis was forgotten by me. Pulling updates from all the people would take so much of time that, I stopped doing it. Which made my time spent on facebook equally boring, thus reducing my time usage on facebook to a great extent.
Putting friends on restricted list ensures none of your updates get published to them. As a result, people tend to think you are inactive on facebook and you go out of their minds.
Turning off chat for all the people or turning it on for specific people makes sure, you do not end up pinging each and every person whose status is green. This too saves lot of time.
I have saved loads of time plus loads of money via data plan after I have made these changes. Hopefully you too put your time into something more meaningful than facebook, like, reading a book by Rabindranath Tagore, translated to English, how about that?
Cheers,
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