If you judge your popularity by the amount of facebook friends you have, incessantly update your status, or get butterflies whenever someone tags you in a picture, you may be addicted to the "social networking site." It masks itself as a medium to help you "connect and share with people in your life." But in actuality it's the culprit behind the pain in your pointer finger from clicking your mouse through countless pictures, reason you bought a blackberry and most importantly the one thing thing keeping you from being a productive human being.
I must agree however, the site can be useful in some respect. It has allowed me to stay in contact with my friends from camp, studying abroad as well as my family in Europe. It also keeps me up to date on the important things in life like where my friends at home will be bartending this weekend or which one of my friends got drunk, lost their phone and now needs my number. But I will admit I have fallen victim to the fact that facebook can pretty much ruin your life, or at least your day by allowing you to know too much about a person and their whereabouts.
I made the mistake of falling pretty hard for a guy I met in London, who unfortunately for me, updating his facebook status was synonomous with breathing for him. Upon my return to the U.S. I not only found out about his new study abroad fling through his status updates, but wall posts, new top friend additions and of course tagged pictures. I can easily say I was obsessed with knowing who this girl was and how he managed to move on so fast, and good ol' facebook allowed me to find out. For a good portion of Summer 2008, I embarrassingly enough allowed what I found out on facebook to have a serious effect on my mood. But I can say with confidence now that I am a recovering facebook addict, who goes on tops ten minutes a day. Nevertheless, I know there are still some of you out there. To determine your level of dependency on "the book" read through Huffingtonpost.com writer, Tara Stiles' scary, but true Top Ten Warning Signs you may be Addicted to Facebook:
1. Facebook is your home page.
2. You update your status more than twice a day.
3. You have over 500 "friends" half of whom you've never actually met.
4. As soon as you step away from your computer you're on FB on your phone.
5. You are a FB stalker. You qualify as a FB stalker if you
a) click on someone's profile more than once a day even if they haven't messaged or tagged you in a photo.
b) have dragged and dropped more than 3 FB photos (not from your own profile)
c) actually go to a place mentioned on someone's page in hopes of seeing them in real life...creepy!
6. You change your profile picture more than a 12-year=old girl.
7. You have checked your FB page while reading this article.
8. You clean up your "wall" so it looks like you spend less time on FB.
9. You are a member of more than 10 groups and respond to every event invitation "attending" even if you have no intention of going.
10. You change your relationship status just to mess with people.
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