Going on a One Week Facebook and Twitter Cleanse
If you are like me, you probably use twitter and facebook way too much. In fact, lately it has gotten to the point where I am beginning to think that visiting these sites is simply a “cognitive itch” of mine. When I realized how much it was cutting into my productivity, that was the last straw. Starting immediately, I will not log onto facebook or twitter for no less than one week.
I’m doing this for two reasons. Firstly (and most obviously) it has been taking up way to much of my time. Secondly, I need to prove to myself that I am as strong willed as I like to believe I am. I’ve got the fitness thing down, I’ve got the diet thing down, now I need to break this damn social networking habit!
I am posting status messages up now, notifying friends and family of my online absence. I thought about blocking the domains entirely, but then I realized that would be making it too easy on myself. This is a test of willpower, and I aim to succeed. I will however, continue blogging. I think that writing meaningful and well organized ideas are probably more interesting to you (and more meaningful to me) than a simple status update. I have linked feedburner to twitter, so you will see whatever blog posts I have recently written show up there as well. Alternatively, you can simply subscribe to my RSS feed.
I will compile my thoughts on this “cleanse” into a new blog post when this is all over. I want to shoutout to Matt Cutts for the idea. Wish me luck!