I have an addiction. A problem. An obsession.... with Facebook. It's amazing to me how Facebook can instantly pull me away from anything thats actually important for me to do. I can't really log onto the net with out checking it... whether its my chem lab or... right now... when I should be studying for my Biology exam tonight. Guess what! I'm not. I know I've studied for like 6 hours for it but I still like to cram crap into my head up until the last second.
It's something about Facebook that draws me to it like a bug to a light. It's interesting to see what friends are up to. Now that we're all in college and at diff't schools, I sometimes find out more about their lives via Facebook status updates than actual conversations. Then, there's the friends I friend but I'm not really friends with them at all. In fact, I'm Facebook friends with my mortal enemy from elementary/middle school/high school/ college. Or, there's those people who party 6 nights a week and may not have a sober coherence of what they've done in college so far... they have so many "interesting" photos that they POST on the internet.
I think I sometimes feel better about myself after viewing photos of girls with barely-there outfits and shots in their hands standing in their dorm rooms. I guess I feel like I'm actually doing something productive with my time here at college while they're out wasting away precious years of their lives getting drunk and maybe even having promiscuous sexual relationships with people they just met that night.
I know, that sounds pathetic... but when things are tough and I feel that nothing I do is getting me anywhere near my goals, it helps to have a reminder that I am doing somethings right with my life.
Facebook is a blessing and a curse for me. While I enjoy being able to talk/see friends I don't see that often anymore, it often turns into a half an hour wasted here another hour wasted there of mindless entertainment. I think maybe next year I'll try giving it up for lent. What do you think?