I decided yesterday during a marathon of studying which was interupted by interspersed impulses to check my facebook that I might have a slight addiction to the site. Technology only serves to fuel that addiction. It would be easy to just close my laptop and stay away from the site, but the iPhone facebook app makes it just as easy to waste minutes/hours on the site. As I really can’t keep my phone off and/or away from me for a myriad of reasons this presented a problem.
So I did the only sensible thing, I deleted the facebook app from my phone and blocked the website in my browser. The logic behind this move is that if I have the time to just sit around aimlessly on facebook, I could easily be doing some logic games or going over wrong answers to figure out what I did wrong. I’m going to recommend this move to anyone who has a site (facebook, myspace, youtube, whatever) that they are checking multiple times per day.
I use firefox as my primary web browser and I installed the BlockSite Add-on to block all direct URL entries and links on other sites that point to facebook.com. We are starting to come down on crunch time before the June 2010 exam. If you are having trouble focusing and you can identify a site as the culprit, it might be time to add the domain to a site blacklist and indulge yourself after the exam is over as a reward.
Today’s agenda consists of work, then a trek over to the library to get some studying and work done before classes tomorrow.
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