My Break From Facebook

          I know it has been almost a week from my Facebook break but I still felt like I needed to write a little bit about what it was like to break from it. Let me tell you, "It was not as hard as I thought it would be." I did kind of slack off and started getting on by the end of the week but for me that was still okay. I learned something from that little break off of Facebook. First, you have to know something about me and it is kind of sad. I live by myself and I don't hang out much because I am tight on money. Because of those two things, I have Facebook up on my computer all the time that I am at home. Grant, I also had a lot to do that week but I saw what I could get done when Facebook wasn't always up on my computer.
          My apartment was being checked by the apartment's insurance company so I had to take the time and clean it just a little bit during the week when usually I wait for the weekend to do that. Cleaning my apartment kept me busy and off of Facebook. I also took the time to pray a lot more. I know that is sad but it is true. We don't notice when something takes up our time until we test it out. Because I prayed every night, I felt a lot better for the next day and felt like I had the energy to deal with what came my way. If I remember right, I also had a lot going on at work too that kept me busy and off. I also noticed that I usually have it up to just talk to people and that I can do that on the Messenger app on my phone so that is what I did for most of the week.
          To be honest, it lowered my anxiety level way down because I wasn't looking at certain pages or things. I wasn't seeing who was having a baby or who was getting married or who was going on vacation or things like that so I couldn't be jealous or have other feelings towards those things. I also had time to think about certain things without things getting in the way. The strange thing is when I started to look I noticed that certain people weren't posting a lot of things like they were before so it could make you wonder are people doing it just for you. I will also admit that when last weekend came I really wasn't ready to get back on or really cared to.
           Tonight is really the first night, since then, that I have left it up for more then a hour or longer. I think I have really prayed more in the last two weeks then I have for awhile. I think I was getting so lost and wrapped up in the Facebook world that I had no idea what was going on in my real world. That is just one of the ways that the devil can get us side tracked. If I was on, on my "break", it was because I was taking care of some business really fast. It also wasn't a big lost when I couldn't update my status everyday. I think that it was better for me if I didn't because then people wouldn't ask me if I was okay or not. While I don't mind people caring and asking, they seem to ask at the wrong times. I know everyone knows what I am talking about.
           Even in a week's worth, that showed me how people can get so caught up in a Facebook life that they don't have a real life outside of it. I am glad that I did just that week because it just made me realize this much. Made me realize that people do and can get so caught up in Facebook that they don't have a life outside of it. I really feel sorry for the children growing up with it. They are missing out on some amazing things for sure. Maybe when it gets too much for me again, I will try to go without it for two weeks and see what that is like and then so on until I don't even care about it anymore. It would be neat to get to that point again like it was before it came out. LOL! For those of us that remember those days.