Earlier this week in Advanced Computer Applications class, we were challenged to log off of Facebook and to not log back on for 7 days. For everyone who uses Facebook, we know that is 7 days without status updates, pokes, inbox messages, quizzes, chats and everything that we spend hours doing every day. Starting out, I thought it would be pretty easy. A week without Facebook would fly by and I would be back on Sunday evening without even missing it. Then, the next day, I got a letter telling me I got accepted to Elon University. Well, there was no way I could go seven days without telling my 1,100 friends on Facebook, right? So, I did. Disappointed in myself, I logged off again...until the next day, when I had to check on Facebook on the time and date of an event I had to go to. I logged off again, pledging to still do seven days without Facebook. But every day since that day, I have always found a legitimate reason to log onto Facebook, if just for 5 minutes.
It is a source of entertainment, networking and organization and it is especially difficult to lose a tool like this for one week. I will try again at some point, but it always seems that the need to communicate and network is always there. We ALL will kick the addiction at some point, but we have to take it ONE day at a time (not seven).
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