Facebook Addict!

So I am thinking I should approach my deactivating as sort of a rehab program. I think I facebook too much and at times get to the point that I stalk people. Oh, don't give me that look we've all "facebook stalked" before. I can see you all having a conversation with your friends about a cute guy you both knew or your friend dating someone new and both of you stare at each other and say, "Facebook it!" or "Facebook that shit" or some other variation of the phrase.

I think it gets harder for me to resist the urge to facebook stalk especially when I really likea guy then every friend request is a potential rival. I must see who this person is, where they go to school at, what's their major and/or job. Are they cuter than me? How do I compare to him? How did they meet? Does the guy I like secretly like him?

I think as our society slowly shifts to a age of more impersonal means of communication we slowly start to communicating with people face-to-face. We text message our feelings, facebook our thoughts, tweet our rants and at the end of the day we hang out with our friends and just assume they know what we share to the whole world. So if that notionis true them, we just go abou our lives thinking people should know and if they don't they're bad friends.

Let's be real though, that's not the case. Why should social networking media by the forms of means of communication that we base our whole information on? Why do I need to go on facebook to know what my roommate's favorite color is? To know what my friend Kiara's favorite book is? That Emma is working done at South Lake Union? If I have to look at facebook to remember things that clearly I am not investing much time into my friendships.

So goals of this little rehabiliation. 1) Find other outlets to keep in touch with friends, preferrable more personal types i.e. coffee dates, phone calls, etc., 2) Find security within myself so that I do not have to be a faceook stalker to maintain friendships/relationships, 3)When I do get back on facebook it'll be that I use it as an enhancement to keep in touch with friends and not a tool to channel my insecuriites through.

With that said Day 1 begins.....