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We all know the feeling. Your to-do list curls around your desk, down your stairs, out your front door and is currently tripping over anybody who has the audacity to walk past your house. You know that you should begin to whittle down the tasks you have to do, but every time you set to work you get distracted by a friend or a shiny object.
So what could be more distracting and anti-work than a shiny object that presents you with all your friends? That is right; facebook is the enemy of productiveness!
It's not like it even has to do much to distract you. You want to be led away into the land where no work is done. All it has to do is tell you that someone poked you. A simple action that'll leave you constantly refreshing your page to make sure you poke them back as quick as possible.
A person can spend hours lost in a maze of contact details, interests, groups and events. You'll find yourself revisiting anything and everything just to make sure nothing has changed in the last five minutes.
You'll check out the profile of that friend that you haven't spoken to in a while, only to realise that you don't care that she's had three kids and is looking a little bloated. You only added her because you mis-clicked 'Ignore' and have yet to figure out how to un-add her.
So what can you do? How can you claim back those lost hours that could be spent weeding the garden or cooking a lovely roast for your spouse? Simply put, you can't.
Sure, you could delete your profile or disconnect your house from the internet, but such extreme methods would only leave you vulnerable elsewhere. How would you know when people are partying if you can't be invited to such events? And the absence of internet would only make it difficult to cross things off your to-do list if those things involved e-mailing people.
So you're going to have to face facts. Facebook and procrastination are here to stay. When you have to do work, you'll want to not work. And even if you don't have a facebook, something or someone shiny will always be there to stop you from doing it.
So accept it as a way of life, enjoy the fun whilst it lasts and make sure you have a whole bunch of caffeine for last minute revision.
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