So a friend of mine recently went cold turkey, gave up Facebook for an entire week.  Not for any particular reason or addiction, or to force themselves to do work, just because he felt like it.  Having spoken to him this morning he mentioned that he didn’t really struggle with it, until the weekend, when it was used to organise plans.  Said he had found himself going to a computer and when they opened their internet browser, found that he started instinctively typing www.fa… before thinking about it.

Some websites to help if you find yourself in a similar situation…

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Are we growing increasingly reliant on Facebook?

Having rediscovered Vodka (it was in my bedside drawer!), let me first mention the fact that I really dislike social networking sites such as Facebook, there’s plenty of reasons, I won’t go into them.  However, this doesn’t stop me wasting hours a day on them, and I’ve found a rather useful tool that allows you to log in to Facebook chat, along with a load of other messengers.  Have a play, see what you think.

• Pidgin – the instant messaging client (install this first).
• pidgin-facebookchat – an addon to let it access Facebook chat.

You may need to stop Facebook signing in to chat if you install this mind, I think it may get angry.

That’s quite enough geekery.  I’m going back to my drink.  Have a good evening.