Tell the truth: how many times have you checked Facebook today?
No, really? I mean, even just to peek?
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Tell the truth: how many times have you checked Facebook today?
No, really? I mean, even just to peek?
Posted in Technology
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Paul March 21, 2010, 12:10 pm
I think 5 or so. (Yesterday… not today.)
It’s funny, because I really didn’t think much of Facebook initially. But the value in it is that I now have a ton of friends and relatives on it, and since they update frequently, there’s a lot of use in it for me. I mostly ignore and/or hide all of the game apps and email forward-like stuff, and that all works out.
Dave Walls March 22, 2010, 2:00 pm
About 4 times – All for about 10 seconds at a time.
“Nano-timewasting.”
Aanen March 22, 2010, 2:18 pm
None. I was in Jamestowne all day.
COD March 22, 2010, 10:17 pm
If I open FB in a Firefox tab and leave it there all day that only counts as checking one time, right?
Joseph March 23, 2010, 8:53 pm
I can’t check it from work 🙁
I do check it every night, though. I think the guy who invented it should probably get a Nobel Peace Prize. It really has brought a lot of people together whom you’d otherwise have never heard from again and I really appreciate that.
I’ve gotten back in contact with a lot of old friends and it’s really just been great. I love it. Wish I invented it.
I can also keep up with my large family and I’m forging more of a relationship with my neices and nephews than I would have been able to otherwise since they live all over the country.
It really has added to my life and made it a lot nicer.
Now, if only I could post to two different Pings closely in time without getting that Goll-danged
“Spam Prevention: You cannot post a comment so soon after submitting another one.
Your comment could not be added, because comments for this entry have either been disabled, you entered invalid data, or your comment was caught by anti-spam measurements”
that would really make my life better.
Can’t you give me a pass, somehow? Isn’t there a way to mark my computer as friendly?
Yes, I’m whining . . .
Ryan March 23, 2010, 9:06 pm
The issues will all go away soon, Joseph, once Paul and I can coordinate our schedules enough to work some magic. Like the cute kitten on the motivational poster said: hang in there!