I was addicted to facebook. Without even realizing it, I ended up spending 3-4 hours a day on it. I am probably not the only one facing such a situation, most people around me are using facebook excessively. The first step in treating a problem is to acknowledge it. Here are seven clues that you care too much about your facebook image:

1. You update your status more than once a week
Updating your status is the main reason why people come back to facebook so often. They want to see who commented on their updates, who likes them and how popular they are. The more you update your status, the more addicted to facebook you are.

2. You have more than 100 "friends" half of whom you never talk to.
The number of "friends" is usually associated with someone's popularity. If you are trying to make new facebook "friends" even though you don't actually talk to them in real life, then you are addicted to this virtual socializing game.

3. You are using facebook from your mobile phone.
We are spending tons of hours in front of our computers. If you keep checking facebook on the bus, train or tram, then you should be wondering how come you have nothing better to do.

4. You click on someone's profile even if they haven't messaged or tagged you in a photo.
Facebook stalking is a reality, we spend time checking on people that we wouldn't normally know much about. Curiosity killed the cat, and gossiping is facebook addiction's best friend.

5. You ignore work in favor of facebook
Many people are checking facebook from work. If you're not doing your job in order to sneak time on facebook, you could have a real problem. That's no joke, bosses are well aware of facebook addiction, read how to lose your job through facebook.

6. You have checked your facebook page while reading this post.
That pretty much says it all. You are checking your facebook profile way more often than you think.

7. You delete posts from your "wall" so it looks like you spend less time on facebook.
One of the clearest signs of addiction is your desire to reject it. Deleting your posts from your wall makes you feel like you appear less addicted, but it doesn't make you more addicted. On the contrary, it reveals that you are even more dependent on facebook for creating a "cool" image of yourself.

Facebook addiction exists and many people are suffering from it nowadays. You are not alone, it happened to me too. Through this blog I will try to help you get over facebook and enjoy real life. The first thing to do is accept that you have a problem.

CNN published an article today providing 12 good reasons why you should hate facebook. "Combine dull status updates with shameless self-promoters, "friend-padders" and that friend of a friend who sends you quizzes every day" THIS is facebook these days and CNN is right to point that out.

Let me comment on CNN's 12 most annoying types of facebookers cause I just have had enough of them!

1. The Let-Me-Tell-You-Every-Detail-of-My-Day Bore. Why the hell would someone want to share all the tiny bitty details of his life like "I just woke up", "I had lunch", "I am in the toilet" etc? That's what I call facebook addiction. If you want to share these things get a husband/wife or at least a roommate, I am sure he'll care more about when you are using the toilet!

2. The Self-Promoter. OK, you are busy, you are traveling a lot, going to cool concerts and don't have time to catch up with friends. But if you were really so busy, how come do you have time to update your facebook so often? Just get a real life and stop bragging about yourself using a virtual profile.

3. The Friend-Padder. Oh wow, you have 600 friends, you must be a really cool person to hang out with! Yeah right, "friend" is the most abused word these days, friendship is not measured in number of people you have met, but in the ability to call someone in the middle of the night and cry your soul out. This doesn't sound like facebook, does it?

4. The Town Crier. People love attention and they do everything to get it. Even if this requires speading rumors of false news they heard somewhere.

5. The TMIer. Too much information. Guys, are you serious? The other day an old colleague announced on my mini-feed that she was pregnant. I found it too personal, but fair enough, she was happy and wanted to share. But then she went ahead and uploaded an album with X-ray pictures of the baby, for god's shake! Stop offering up details about your personal lives, marital troubles and bodily functions, stop giving up your privacy so easily. Here is another TMI example referring to a... vagina accident.

6. The Bad Grammarian. "Haha long time ago in universi i love my tye :D". Messages like that appear on my feed all the time. Do I seem like I enjoy decoding riddles trying to guess what you want to say, hurts my eyes.

7. The Sympathy-Baiter. "Why is it that when all you want is to be happy, people tell you the most horrible things to put you down?" [Actual status update] Oh, I am so sorry that you are sad, but maybe you should find a real life friend and not beg for sympathy on facebook.

8. The Lurker. They hide in the shadows, they read everything you post, but don't comment on it and don't post anything themselves. They are the Facebook Stalkers and they are creepy. But don't forget that you are the one who provides them with information about your personal life, so it's not only their fault.

9. The Crank. They hate everything and they love announcing it. Sometimes I wonder if there is anything they like on this planet. Hmm, I guess hating is more intriguing than liking in today's perverted world.

10. The Paparazzo. You are having a good time at a party, drinking, dancing, making out, whatever. And suddenly a camera appears capturing the fun. Well, that wouldn't be a problem if some people didn't feel the obligation to upload these photos on facebook the next day. Come on, if you want to show off how much fun you had, please upload a photo of YOURSELF, who told you I want to share my beer-drinking habits?

11. The Maddening Obscurist. Feeling like being a psychic today? Then try to decode "John is feeling white", "hmm, is that for real?", "truth is alive", "ok, what's next?". If you want to say something, just say it, otherwise don't! And I assure you, if I want to enjoy obscurism, Shakespeare is much better than facebook... "to be or not to be, that is the question".

12. The Chronic Inviter. CNN's article says it all: "Support my cause. Sign my petition. Play Mafia Wars with me. Which 'Star Trek' character are you? Here are the 'Top 5 cars I have personally owned.' Here are '25 Things About Me.' Here's a drink. What drink are you? We're related! I took the 'What President Are You?' quiz and found out I'm Millard Fillmore! What president are you?" Enough, no. more. SPAM!

Facebook is a heaven for people like these, they are not the exception, they are the norm on there. Just look at your facebook home page and you'll realize what I mean. Are you also addicted to facebook? The sooner you realize it, the earlier you will start doing something about it.

Remember your adolescent years when you would search online for adult stories to satisfy your curiosity about sex? No need to do it any more, now we have facebook and the stories are more real than ever. Credits go to all these people who are more than eager to reveal their sexual life ignoring that hundreds of "friends" can read it. Or is this what they are aiming for?

Here is a weird true facebook story of a... vagina accident:



Too. much. information. For god's shake, where have the times when people had private lives gone? We are living in a Big Brother society, only now we are the ones revealing our personal information, there is noone else to blame. So, next time you decide to share your sexual adventures on facebook, you may want to think again.

Read more annoying types of facebookers.

Are you looking for funny status updates? Messages that will make you look cool and smart on facebook? Well, sorry to say that, but get a grip, you got it all wrong.

Being cool and funny is NOT measured by what you post on facebook, it is measured by your activities in REAL LIFE, focus on the latter instead of your virtual social networking world.

OK, that may have caught you by surprise, but shocking is sometimes more effective than being politically correct. I invite you to take a step back and think about what you are doing:

• You are spending time and energy trying to find something clever to write on your status. Why?


• To catch people's attention and make them think your life is cool?


• But if you are enjoying your life, why do you really need to advertise it on facebook?


• Why don't you try to get attention in your real life instead? By being successful in your job, helping your community or spending time with good friends.

By searching for cool facebook statuses you are just looking to substitute something you are missing: attention in your REAL life. Instead of looking for a substitute, I suggest you directly face the problem. Go out, talk to people around you, volunteer, ask, answer, interact in real life. Facebooking seems easier since you can do it from your couch, but all it creates is a fake sense of community, it deceives you and when you'll need some real support, the brutal truth of loneliness will hit you hard.

Think again if you are addicted to facebook or if you have become one of these annoying types of facebookers. Follow this blog to get facebook slowly out of your life and forget about funny status updates. Maybe it's time to update your real social life instead.

Yoda FB my name is, and sick of facebook I am.

Active facebook member for five years I have been. Groups I created, facebook friends I made, conflicts and fights I experienced. A lot my eyes have seen, whole new "socializing" experience for me it was.

Now sick of the pretension on facebook I am. Sick of reading what people, who I don't really know, are doing. Sick of people giving up their privacy to show off how "cool" they are. Tired of virtual friends who won't be there when support in real life I need. Be one of them, I want not, so why energy on them spend?

Waste of time facebook is, hmm, here to explain you why and propose solutions I am. Start, I shall:

Identify the problem

Are you addicted to facebook?

Is facebook taking over your social life?

Do you really need facebook?

Is facebook a replace for email?

Take action

How to limit your facebook time

Facebook addiction: find alternatives

How to guard your facebook privacy

Check world news instead of facebook profiles

Where facebook ends, blogging begins

Evaluate the results

Online social network beyond facebook

Get back your pre-facebook real life

Reach meta-facebook balance without need to show off

As these subjects I analyze, tuned stay!

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Just an illusion your facebook friends are. On their walls you comment, you are in their lives you think, but true this is not.

Illusion of intimacy it is.

When you have a real problem, cry on their shoulders you can not.

Long facebook story to share I have, but being alone, Yoda FB hates. If to hang out with me you want, a link to your blog here feel free to post.Read more..

Well, guess what, NO private messages for you here there are.

That's why e-mail inbox you have.

But since resist checking this inbox you could not, post my most important messages for you over here I will:

Yoda FB, my name is, read my profile

How to become my friend

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