Hating On Facebook and Detoxing The Addiction

I just read this...

http://listdose.com/top-10-reasons-why-we-hate-facebook/

At first, I was happy because I thought I'm not alone in the sense of 'I can live happily even without Facebook' but after reading the whole post, it makes me wonder... They hate Facebook because it makes them less happy but they can't stop using it because they love it so much? O_o

It doesn't make sense. I mean, whose fault is that? Definitely NOT Facebook but rather, the users, isn't it? To answer some of the pet peeves mentioned in the list and some of my personal pet peeves,

• I don't care about the adverts, so I just ignore them like they don't exist.
• I don't care about the bad words people often use to show how 'intelligent and successful they are compared to others', so I either reprimand (for lack of better word in my mind) them, or completely ignore them.
• I don't care about the oh, I'm so beautiful/cute/sexy/handsome Selfie whatever so I just unfollow whoever tends to do that without providing other good information I'm looking for.
• I don't care about those apps, those game apps especially, so I just block the game feeds.
• I don't care about people I don't know add me for whatever reasons but there's no need to be rude, so I just accept the invitation and then put them in appropriate friend group and unfollow them so they don't see what I don't want them to see and I don't have to see what I don't care to see.
• I don't care to see whatever Facebook notification in my email inbox, so I just disable them like totally disable them that if I ever got an Amnesia I'd probably have no idea I have an account there.
• I don't care about stalkers so I set my posts so people who I want to share it with are the only ones who can see it.
• I don't care to socialize with others most of the time (most of the time I'm on the prowl for information, not to chat), so I ignore the personal message notification and the comments until I feel like replying.

So yeah... I pretty much ignore whatever stuff I don't want to see on Facebook. Why waste my time and energy hating when I could have spend them while enjoying all the good stuff like

• Connecting with family members and friends who live far away
• Rediscover old friends
• Being updated with all the current news before they actually came out on the official media
• Sharing simple tips and useful information updates relevant to people' daily life
• Discovering great ideas
• Relaxing with eye candies like the arts ;D
• and.. more!

Seriously, who didn't find it awesome?

It's too easy to become addicted though. Life is more than just Facebooking all day. So whenever I start having those addiction syndromes like checking for updates every single minutes, assignments start piling up like crazy, and so on, I know it's time for a detox and this is how I did it:

http://time.com/3093332/5-things-i-learned-when-i-quit-facebook/

Not exactly of course but close enough :)

P/S: By the way, I use Facebook for both personal and professional reasons. I thought I should mention this because this is the main reason for my addiction. I mean, if it's used for completely personal reason, I wouldn't access it as much as I do now at work.