Number 39d: The Facebook Fast - Day Four Recap

Well, kids... tomorrow at noon I'll be back on Facebook. 

How do I feel about this past week?

Would I do this again?

Absolutely.

Is there a chance that I might just not reactivate tomorrow?

Yes... but I'm also kind of wondering what you've all been up to all week. :) Thanks for hanging in there with me!

Do I still have plans to own a french bulldog and name it KEVINBACON?

You betcha.

xoxo,

E

Number 39c: The Facebook Fast - Day Two Recap

For those of you keeping track at home, here's what I accomplished in the last 24 hours while avoiding The Book:

- Finished my thank you notes from the holidays, purchased stamps, sent them on their merry and grateful way.
- Crafted, edited, and rehearsed the story I'm set to tell at my audition tomorrow.
- Spent some quality time with the roomies.
- Blogged not once, but twice.
- Returned some long overdue emails and phone calls.
- Yet again didn't have to charge my phone midday.

Call me a dork, but I love to craft status updates. It's not a self indulgent thing, it is part of my love affair with words. I loved my job this summer because I got to put words together every day - I got to be the voice of a festival and the voice for many companies. It was pretty exciting.

I don't miss Facebook, but I miss status updates! (Does that mean I should just convert to Twitter? Ugh.) I really feel like a Gen X (am I Gen X? I always forget...) weirdo but that's that. Right now I'd be complaining about bus etiquette via status updates. At what point is it rude to move because you are too close to a dude coughing up a lung? Like for real man, stay at home. Or take some meds or at the very least, cover your damn mouth. I'd write an ode to you, but I already did that this week. (But seriously I don't have IL health insurance until February so please for the love of Pete, get your germs away from me.)

I'd also have let you know that I made s'mores nachos this evening. Jealous? I bet you are.

But ANYWAY, during this FB drought, I've done a lot of googling about Facebook. (It turns out you really just need to waste some time for the hell of it sometimes.) Here's what I found out:

- Facebook has more than one billion active users. If the company were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China (population: 1.34 billion) and India (population: 1.17 billion). Some 600 million people use Facebook on mobile devices.
- Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the "Like" button the "Awesome" button. (Barney Stinson would approve.)
- Rumor has it, the kids don't use Facebook any more. So, this fast makes me one of the youngins. Just saying.
- And apparently... this: 

Wow. Morbid.

And with that I'm calling Day Two of The Facebook Fast 

A SUCCESS.

Number 39b: The Facebook Fast - Day One Recap

It's been over 24 hours since I logged off Facebook and I'm actually doing pretty well. I thought I'd be feeling like this:

...but I'm actually feeling much more like this:

That's me, feeling productive and well rested. Here are the things I've accomplished a bit more of since logging off:

- Arrived at the gym on time because I wasn't putzing around on Facebook (Yep. I just said putzing. Deal with it.)
- Actually did some work while the baby napped yesterday. The whole point in nannying was supposed to be the amount of flexibility/time I would have during the day to work on things. I usually spend the first half of a nap scrolling through my newsfeed and the second half looking at all of the buzzfeed articles that caught my attention on my newsfeed. (While we're at it... check this out if you ARE looking to waste time.)
- I WENT TO BED ON TIME.
- I didn't have to charge my cell phone half way through the day. Huh. Go figure.

I only felt like I was missing it twice yesterday, once when I was waiting for the bus and again when I was ready for bed since that's when I usually do some scrolling. It's been a bit refreshing... the only thing I missed was saying HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE BROTHER over some form of social media. Wait... nope. Did it. I'm pretty happy with my Facebook Fast so far... let's see how the next 24 hours go!

Number 39: Go without electricity for a night (Or Facebook for a week)

I'd love to go without electricity for a night and see what happens, but in the dead of winter and the start of audition season, that's really not going to happen. But with a number of auditions coming up in the next few weeks, I've been thinking about my productivity levels and realizing that with so many distractions throughout the day, I'm not accomplishing nearly as much as I would like. And so began the idea of...

The Facebook Fast.

Last week my roommate was discussing a news report her mother had seen about a group of girls who ditched their smart phones for a week to see what would happen. Not at all shockingly, the girls were 100% able to function without their phones. I've recently come to notice just how much time I waste on Facebook. I keep telling myself how much more productive I want to be in the new year, but I've yet to do anything about it. So here it is, friends. Can this internet addicted lady go without Facebook for 96 hours?

I guess we'll find out. I'm hoping the hiatus will allow me to catch up on the blog a bit more (and launch my new idea for 2013!) Because let's face it. I've had at least three posts about rebranding my blog and writing more in the new year, and I've yet to do any of that, but I've updated my status at least once a day for the past two weeks. And I think life will go on keeping track of it on my timeline. Tune in here as the week goes on to see how I'm holding up against the pain of withdrawal.

Eek... wish me luck!