7 days of utopia?

It's been seven days since starting my 30 day facebook hibernation. Am I still alive? Yes!

So, what has it been like? It's been fantastically awesome most of the time, but I have bumped into many challenges. I'll start by sharing some challenges in this post and save the positives for another post.

The hardest part of not being on facebook is that I don't have access to 1000 opinions when I want opinions.  It may sound silly, but I've come to rely on listening to facebook friends on a myriad of topics. For example, I've been exploring grad school. I know people would have an opinion on that topic. I have some questions and would like a myriad of perspectives. On facebook I'd simply throw a question out there and then capture a ton of opinions and do my best to make a wise decision. With facebook that's easy. Without it...well, it's harder.

I've come to rely on mining for balance through the sometime extreme views of my friends on facebook.
What I've found is that if you have enough people weigh in on something, somewhere in the middle of the thought train a nugget of truth emerges.  I'm not trying to say that everyone's extreme on facebook, but facebook lends itself to people being showing off their extreme side. Let's be honest, very few people are on facebook to be subtle.

My next challenge comes in that I have no idea what people are doing. This is a blessing in some ways, but I have felt a little bummed when someone says, "Oh, that's right...you didn't know...I posted that I inherited the lottery and gave $1000 to the first 100 people to give me a thumbs up...sorry you missed it man."

I've also learned that my brain is programed to click on the blue and white facebook app box on my phone and my facebook link in my browser.  Boredom is my trigger , to click and check. This is a hard habit to break and to be honest, I have clicked by accident.  In my near automatic state I've even seen the little red bubbles telling me that someone mentioned my name or wrote something to me...I can do nothing and I will do nothing. I stay legit and close the app or the page quickly and move on. In fact, I have not read a status update at all. Each day I am getting stronger at not having a blue button accident.

Ok, that's enough for today...7 days....

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