The Facebook Project

I’m pretty sure that if you own a Facebook account, you’ve spent far too much time on it more than just once. Admit it, you know how many hours you’ve wasted on it! Looking through photo-shopped pictures of artificially posing people, stalking good-looking acquaintances you barely know, reading oh-so-important status updates and playing games which were designed to attract five-year-olds.

Now, you might argue with me and tell me that you don’t do any of the things I mentioned (or not only). You defend yourself by illustrating what practical means of communication the social platform offers. You don’t need somebody’s phone number, e-mail address and sometimes not even their full name! People are easily found, can be added as “friends” and after having inspected their profile carefully, you’re persuaded that you’ve already known them for ages.

Yet, there already existed other ways to contact one another before Zuckerberg invented Facebook too. How about talking to someone face-to-face? You could send your friend a text message, an e-mail, even a letter or simply give them a call. Really, it’s actually not that hard. So please don’t tell me that you need Facebook to stay in contact with someone, it’s often more about spying into secrets, getting the latest gossip etc and most importantly: WASTING YOUR TIME. Even the most mundane, ridiculous or boring status one of your online friends might post, can still be far more entertaining than mulling over an essay. But if you aren’t eager on running away from your responsibilities anymore, I have a proposal for you:

Just quit it! If you don’t log in, you can’t walk into this horrible trap. At the moment I’m just extremely fed up with sacrificing so many enjoyable things I’d like to do because I can’t stop procrastinating. That’s why I am breaking up with Facebook. Yes, I’m going cold turkey on Facebook and I am telling you to make sure that I won’t have a relapse. This time, I really don’t want to give in, no matter what. Whenever I have an overpowering craving to log in, I’ll try to keep my fingers of the keyboard and run away from the PC as fast as possible. Mind you, I’m not going to delete my account with a finger snap, but I’ll deactivate it for the trial period of a month, starting this Monday.

Guys, if you want to meet up, need to contact me etc. just send me a message or e-mail me. Otherwise, most of you see me creeping around the university anyway. If all goes well, I’ll extend the withdrawal until Christmas and maybe some glorious day, I’ll actually delete it and be free...sigh. Where there’s a will, there’s a way (at least I hope so). Keep your fingers crossed.