Have you noticed a problem? I have. Partially by my own ridiculousness with checking facebook far too often than necessary. It might be the availability to the internet that is ever so constant, and then the ridiculous curiosity of whether someone MAY have posted to some ridiculous thing that I have posted. WHAT? WHY! DUMB!

There are better ways to spend the day than the internet. Than facebook. Honestly, I would rather waste that time reading a book. But hey, I'm a reader. I have packing to do, Christmas projects to finish and FRIENDS TO HANG OUT WITH!

SOCIAL network? Negative. What a LOAD OF CRAP!

I think the IT Crowd's version of facebook aka

"friendface" advertises it pretty well. (click friendface)

(AND THIS ONE!)

The only problem at this point is that I do have friends that I
have totally sucked keeping in contact with over the years

and this is a GREAT way to keep in contact, right?

Eh. It's a good way to have a once sided friendship of me

knowing what's going on with them, without ACTUALLY

having to speak to them. (social network?)

OR messages from people, pictures that other people have posted of events I have attended. I think I can't quit it because of the loss of contact I would have. I've never been

one for the games, the farms, the animal zoos, and whatever

else is on there. I usually don't add people I don't know just to have a whole ton of "friends." But I am surely addicted to keeping in contact or following my favorite bands to see what shows they are playing or putting random lyrics on my status from songs I love to see who might get it. People rarely do.

A girl at work today made a comment about how her boyfriend had to go on the 12 step program for war of warcraft because he was playing it all the time. Now.. I don't feel I am SO addicted to anything that I would need to go to that extreme, but what if I am. And in complete seriousness and not at all taking this lightly...

The Twelve Step Program from AA- of course, you can enter in a separate addiction rather than alcohol..

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Now.. I realize that this may be an extreme. I have heard sad sad things of people addicted to facebook, which seems so ridiculous. But I know the time I waste.

Honestly, if I am checking this damn website several times a day there is a problem. And I am, so there is.

Here's a cool article that a friend had me read... (click here!)

It's easy to say you have an issue with ____, totally different to do something. Maybe you will read my post and think it's ridiculous and that I really have a problem, and truthfully I am embarrassed to admit. I really do have too much time on my hands.

"I don't know what your generation's fascination is with documenting your every thought, but let me assure you, they're not all diamonds. 'Roman is having an ok day, and he got a Coke Zero from the gas station?'"
"He bought ANOTHER Coke Zero? Oooh, that Roman... incorrigible..."

Easy-A

Stuff to do.

Rant officially done.