Addiction..

I have an addiction problem and its called Facebook. Facebook has taken the social network space by rage. And i love it. I graduated from Orkut to MySpace (not proud of it) to Facebook. It has cool features, security is the one i like the most, i don't want every TD&H to know what i am doing! And of course you can find any person in this world on facebook, long lost friends, long lost boyfriends (er.. thats a little awkward), cousins, uncles and aunts too! I facebook a lot, update status "Now i am going to bed", "Now i am about to sleep", "Now i am 99% asleep".. Upload pictures of course, the world ought to see my gorgeous pictures! And then check to see what the heck are people doing (other than spending half the time on social network sites). And all this brought to me by iPhone Facebook app, it has all the features you need and its so handy!

When i check facebook, i constantly get this feeling that the whole world is upto something and i am the one who is not taking part in it. I don't need to know what new pair of shoes someone got because it makes me check my closet wondering "Do i need those...?". Then i thought, if i don't spend time on facebook how can I make use of the time. Maybe i am an extreme FBer and not everyone can empathize with me. And i stayed away from Facebook for 10 days and the difference it made was amazing. I did not log into facebook, no status updates, and had no idea what everyone was upto. Its very refreshing knowing that you are not so tightly connected to everyone else.

Human brain is highly evolved and it can store terra bytes of data. But i am not one of those who can discard information based on its importance in my life and hence i cant afford to lose precious bytes of my brain. I have decided to run a defragmenter on my brain and make space for useful information like Barrack Obama's health care plan (nahhhh...), lyrics of a song (yes), an article on Gizmodo (I am a software programmer by birth, its in my blood so i need to pretend to be interested in the latest and greatest technologies) or watch a marathon of How i met your mother and go gaga over Stinson. He is funny! And here is a small little random fact to digest. In a survey conducted among women, more than 50% said they are most attracted to guys who are funny, around 15% said they are attracted to smart guys (geeks and nerds, hold on tight to your girlfriends) and only 15% said they are attracted to good looks (so untrue if you ask me)

Like any other addiction, there were withdrawal symptoms. I was so eager to update "I got upgraded to First Class", or "My sister sent me a coach gift card, time to splurge!" but i curbed those instincts and instead texted my husband. Texting is a whole another story... But as with an addiction i could not stay away longer, specially when you get a very chatty person on the flight and you just go for that gadget that can get you out of a conversation and facebook came to my rescue. I cannot completely untie myself from Facebook but i can be a less active person on it. And its ironic that Facebook is the best place to bring readers to my blog..