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Turn off Facebook and engage in other activities to reclaim your time. Despite its allure, excessive Facebook use can drain your entire day. Discover effective strategies to break free from this addiction below.
Effective Ways to Beat Facebook Addiction
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Facebook aids in maintaining connections and sharing life's moments with family and friends. As a manager or entrepreneur, you can leverage Facebook as an effective promotional tool, bringing your business's name to users everywhere. Additionally, Facebook serves as an entertainment hub. Making friends, playing games, and utilizing apps are among the most common reasons why individuals create a Facebook account for themselves.
Ask yourself why you use Facebook or what initially drove you to create an account. Do your subsequent Facebook activities still align with that original purpose? Trouble begins when you use Facebook for all those activities (or more) instead of selecting a specific purpose. Such indiscriminate Facebook usage turns your page into a cluttered mess of information, consuming your precious 24-hour time reserve each day. Once you've correctly identified your purpose for using Facebook, focus on that goal. This will make Facebook more beneficial and prevent you from getting lost in aimless hours spent on social media.
Share your goals with friends.
Transform Facebook into a useful tool for yourself, not a time, health, and money-consuming machine. Install a calendar app on Facebook like 30 Boxes to organize and share your goals and events smartly. 30Boxes acts as an online calendar helping you list tasks and receive messages, notifications from other social networks like Twitter, MySpace, Blogger... It can be accessed via your smartphone.
Additionally, leverage your Facebook friends to become motivators pushing you towards achieving your goals and regularly reminding you of milestones on your self-Facebook-addiction-recovery journey through this app.
Limit your usage time.
Once you've set your Facebook usage goal, firmly determine the total time you spend 'online' on Facebook each day. Useful tools like Stayfocusd can assist you in this task. It's a Google Chrome extension that allows internet users to limit their daily usage time on a specific website. Set this limit, and once you exceed it, the extension will automatically block your access to the website until the 24-hour limit of each day elapses.
This is a gradual approach. Gradually reducing the aforementioned time limits will help you transition from heavy addiction to gradually quitting Facebook altogether.
Use Facebook as a 'reward' for completing tasks effectively
Moreover, once you've established that Facebook is a form of entertainment for yourself, consider it a reward when you accomplish a task effectively. You can refer to the commonly used Pomodoro study method to achieve this. According to Pomodorotechnique.com, the 'Pomodoro Technique' is a method that helps you manage your time effectively by breaking it down into valuable chunks to complete what we want to do and interspersing work periods with short breaks. Essentially, this is a simple and effective way to help you manage your time while you're striving to complete a task.
Below are the steps to take if you decide to try the Pomodoro technique:
- Decide on the tasks you need to accomplish.
- Set a timer (using a clock, phone) for 25 minutes.
- Work diligently until the timer rings.
- Take a break - usually for 5 minutes. Use Facebook during this time.
- Repeat 3 times.
- After every 4 cycles of 'work-break' above, the break time will extend.
- Repeat if necessary.
Marking on paper will help you track your progress. Keep in mind that the aforementioned break time is still too short and gradually limit it to a minimum. Using this method, users will become more disciplined, stricter with themselves when considering the brief 5-minute Facebook browsing as a valuable 'reward' for the achievements they've strived for in the preceding 25 minutes.
Just shut down the computer
There's a vast, wonderful world beyond the endless stream of statuses, likes, and mindless comments from your friends that you see every day on your News Feed. Sign out of your Facebook account, shut down your computer, step out into real life, and interact with people face-to-face. Start forming habits like exercising, finding a personal hobby, or learning a new language. Once you have a passion in real life, you'll find the world around you much more fascinating to explore than spending all day glued to Facebook, with friends you sometimes don't even know!
With this effective Facebook detox method, I believe you'll gain more control over your personal time. Give it a try and see how you feel when you detox from Facebook.
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