How to Get Rid of Facebook Addiction in 6 Steps

Its been surveyed that every 1 out 4 person in US use facebook. and the people getting addicted to facebook are increasing day by day.

So here are the steps you can use to get rid of facebook addiction.


01 – Admit you have a problem – This sounds like the first step to any other addiction. you ask yourself “What did I just accomplish by checking Facebook?” Ha! If only I had that much self-control over my Facebook addiction. Well, at least I admit to it!

02 – Define your goals on Facebook – Hmm … I never really had any goals with Facebook. Although maybe my goal should be to reach 5,000 friends. That surely would get me to login more frequently. Just logging in to check on friends’ birthdays, keep track of old friends, etc. Once you catch yourself going off track, log off. If only it was that easy!

03 – Make a Facebook Schedule – Seriously? If you find yourself scheduling Facebook into your daily schedule, this should be a serious warning sign. I suggests that “after each Facebook goal, write down how much time and at what frequency you’ll need to be on Facebook to achieve that goal.” Are they serious? Based on the calculations they suggested, you end up using Facebook for 6 hours and 20 minutes a week. I think this is still a relatively significant amount of time, although I spend much more time on the site.

04 – Think of other things you could be doing – Duh! This is a no brainer. I could be at the gym, socializing in the real world or a million other things but there is a reason I logged on in the first place. I’m starting to think that these suggestions are totally useless!

05 – Leave Facebook – This should have been number one! If you are spending way too much time on Facebook, quit cold turkey. It’s like having your cell phone turned off for 24 hours. Once you do it, you will realize how dependent you have become and think twice about your usage.

06 – Find a substitute – This one is good. Facebook taking up too much time? Find another site that isn’t as good! Someone says “if you find you’re at a computer during critical relapse time, find another website to log onto and read instead of Facebook.” Facebook relapse? This is a little crazy.

I found a funny video on Facebook Addiction on YouTube… Here it is


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15 Responses to “How to Get Rid of Facebook Addiction in 6 Steps”

YONOSE on November 6th, 2010 9:17 am:

I agree with latest anonymous.

Facebook is just a sack of twisted made up legal stuff, just look at the Privacy Policy

facebook.com / policy.php

the latest three articles 7), 8), and 9), are the most relevant for me, cause these contradict with the rest of the whole policy, and the whole fucking policy just contradicts with their
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,

facebook.com / terms.php

which at the same time contradicts with those Facebook’s principles

facebook.com / principles.php

i’m just like… HOLY SHIT …


Deepan on December 22nd, 2010 2:54 pm:

I agree with latest anonymous.

Facebook is just a sack of twisted made up legal stuff, just look at the Privacy Policy


Jim on May 27th, 2011 10:25 pm:

“Rights and Responsibilities”???

What, facebook still pretends to care about these?


Scott on June 28th, 2011 2:03 pm:

I can probably whittle this down to a 3-step process:

1. Buy a gun

2. Stare down the barrel

3. Pull the trigger


Michael Smith on June 29th, 2011 3:12 am:

I am following some steps however It is very dificul to control the Facebook addiction.I am using Social Network Controller to autocontrol my Facebook addiction and to control the time that my children spend on Facebook, twitter, habbo, and other social networks.


Dr. Snarfle on July 23rd, 2011 3:48 am:

Cold turkey. It’s not a physiological addiction you idiots. Turn off the internet & read a book FFS


Brian from Argentina on August 2nd, 2011 7:15 am:

I have now stopped using Facebook and instead I am using Real Life to better get in touch with my TRUE friends:

- Instead of just clicking on the “Like” button on all of my friend’s photos I will phone or hang out with them and tell them that they look great, and we will have hours of discussion (probably on just the photo itself!)

- Instead of posting about what I just had for breakfast for all my 3,000 “friends” I will only call up less than 5 of my TRUE friends who truly care about what’s new with me every once in a while

- Instead of playing FarmVille I will be working on my own garden because I value hard work and dedication over point-and-click

- Instead of posting a million photos of myself in various retarded poses I will keep them to myself so that I don’t embarrass myself

Facebook is a disease not to just us but everyone else as well. Real Life has helped me be a much better person. Facebook is like Jesus to these e-losers; let them have their gods and their religions and we will keep our sanity while living in the REAL WORLD, away from bozos like them.

Many thanks for this awesome blog.


NamNam on August 23rd, 2011 8:56 am:

Tell me, what have you accomplished with adding dozens of friends everyday? Do you even know any of these people? Or are you just doing it for the sake of whoring yourself out to people?

If you accept my friend request and I message you, not once, not twice, but THRICE within just about a week and you don’t respond AT ALL (while taking the time to “like” silly status updates and spamming random bullshit on your wall all day long) then this pretty much proves my point.

Social networking is the worst form of, well, socializing. I live my life outside of the computer, having fun with friends. Not sitting alone in my room, hoping that really cute girl I’m stalking “liked” the poem I wrote her.


raj kapadia on December 11th, 2011 9:25 am:

i just did one thing….i said my small sister of 7 years to change my password whatever she wants. She dont know how to use facebook. I quitted facebook!!!!
yippppppppppe


Hubert on December 11th, 2011 3:46 pm:

Facebook also screwed my relationship with my wife. She is so addicted to it and kept checking her friends status. Can u imagine how much time she spends on it! She also used to play the stupid game call farmville. So additive that she had late nights, wake up early morning, etc.. Now she deligates all housework to me and my kids, and we are all very pissed off with her.


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patrice on December 31st, 2011 3:12 pm:

Why i am not getin ture with facebook so can i get signe over to facebook.


Super Saiyan Vegeta on March 26th, 2012 12:57 am:

I dislike Facebook, and I have my reasons for doing so.

I have used Facebook for 2 1/2 years, and have experienced a lot of self-promoting, narcissistic behavior on there. A lot of the people on it (whether you like it or not) like to use it as a platform for glamorizing their social lives (or lack thereof), whilst possessing a collection of thousands of faces they have never once exchanged messages with (and never will). For people who aren’t very “social,” looking at photos of other people showing them having a “good” time only wrecks one’s own self-esteem, and makes them feel utterly worthless in comparison. It’s those kinds of photos of people who look all “happy” and are shown meeting lots of people at an event, having crazy drinking parties, etc.

Many of the people I had added on Facebook in the past would usually ignore me, no matter how many times I would greet them. And instead they would turn around and keep spamming up their walls with stupid apps or TMI-quality posts that honestly no one cared about (unless you’re a stalker). (I know there are some people who would respond to you almost all of the time, but sadly they are in the minority, and with millions of people on Facebook it’s difficult to find the right person who actually gives a shit about you as a person first and foremost.)

On Facebook, the value of friendship seems to have been lost as it tends to lean more towards compiling a huge mass of random strangers rather than putting yourself out there to get to know each and every person you add a little better. This was my main gripe with MySpace, and since its demise Facebook is carrying the torch of social solitude onwards. To add more insult to the injury, people are getting out much less and they are spending more time trying to attract online attention (be it uploading a truckload of personal photos, embedding a thousand YouTube videos a day, or what have you).

Perhaps Facebook wouldn’t be such a bad site at all if more of its users posted things that were the least bit interesting, as opposed to downright stupid wall posts like “i think pee smells like cheerios.” And as for those who are saying it’s more the problem of the people on there as opposed to the site itself, I rather like to think of Facebook as another online forum: if the community sucks for the most part, I am less likely to stay on there, no matter what “nifty” features are there.

Good riddance of that shit. I don’t care if you still use Facebook, but regardless of what you try to convince me otherwise with I refuse to return to Facebook, out of disgust for that site. I don’t have time to worry about that crap because I have a life of my own to worry about, and that to me is the real deal of socializing.


zetna on April 9th, 2012 8:27 pm:

I am so angry that im starting to feel like facebook is the devil who wants to give my private life away. I never joined this thing called facebook. A friend did usingmy name and all, now i cant find help to delete my profile. My friend is no where to be found. Last saw him in 2009. Facebook is my horror story. Even their helpcentre is unhelpful. Im so angry.


McCaffery on April 12th, 2012 2:42 pm:

I agree with one of the previous comments, when on Facebook, one is not really with these people, but in reality, one is sitting alone in a room. For myself, I am just so very tired of the self promotion and the strong claims of people insisting how *wonderful* their lives are. Are these people’s lives really so perfect if they have to broadcast it every single day, and often, multiple times throughout the day?

I would rather talk on the phone with a live person and good friend, than read all of the loud toned posts wherein people insist that everything is so wonderful all the time. It just got to be too unreal, I was comparing myself too much, and it became negative. I deactivated my account.


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