I must have wasted roughly three hours of my day yesterday. Normally, you'd say, 'oh, thats nothing, I do that all the time [watching tv], [playing video games], [shopping], etc, but the three hours that I wasted and will never get back was spent checking status updates, pictures, friend requests, and other useless features on facebook. Did I really want to know that one of my friends is friends with a supermodel, or that so-and-so uploaded new pictures of their recent trip, or that so-and-so is now in a relationship?
The answers in order to those are...no (fine fine, yes to this one), no, and no.
It's gotten so bad that when I sit down at my computer, my conscious brain doesn't even know that I've already typed www.facebook.com or that the first thing I check when waking up is facebook on my cell phone to see if that hot girl I like posted something on my wall.
Before I went to bed last night, I started to think back to a time when none of us had facebook. What was that time like? Was that before hybrid cars became popular and Chuck Taylor's were in style? (I'm not sure actually). More importantly, what did I do all day to keep myself occupied?
Well, the answer is that I'm going to build a time machine to recreate 'life before facebook'. Fine, you called my bluff...I don't know how to build a time machine. I'll do the next best thing though. I'm going to go cold turkey on facebook for one week straight and see what happens! Maybe I'll find the Holy Grail of facebook-lessness, or maybe I'll look like a crack head (think Dave Chappelle's character Tyrone Biggums) trying desperately to get a fix!
Either way, I'm onto my journey to find new ways to waste time. Tonight, I created this post. Tomorrow night holds endless possibilities. Maybe I'll create a myspace account...
PS - I wonder if anyone posted on my facebook wall tonight...doh!
