Facebook Free?

So, on Friday, I set my facebook status to "facebook free this weekend". And thanks to other Facebook addicts, I've been busted twice this weekend for "checking in" -- It's not like I sit there and scroll through pictures, I mean I'm facebook free this weekend, but I need to check email don't I? That's not technically Facebook.. Nobody ever emails my normal address anymore, so I'm doing others a favour really.

So, the reason I'm going, or trying to go Facebook free is because it really is starting to take over my life.

I start work at 9 - but I'm there at 8:30am to check facebook.
Meeting starts at 9:15 and I have my profile up for all to see so I can monitor the inbox feature - and constantly update the "who's online" button.. gawd forbid, I know.

I get an assignment out of town, and the whole time I'm on the road I'm thinking, I wonder if anyone will miss me in facebook land?? It's the first thing I do when I get back - what you need a script in a half an hour? I just need to check my facebook inbox or if my "friend" (even though I haven't heard from them since 1989) has posted the pictures of their new condo on their photo album yet - they're status said they were working on it this morning ... yes, yes, I'm hurrying...

But those who are familiar with facebook, and the wonderful waste of time that it is - KNOWS that seeing (1) beside the word, INBOX - can make your day!! That is, until you open it up and see that it's a mass email from the group you felt obliged to join because it was your friend after all who started the tupperware party site 14 hours from where you live - and who knows maybe you WILL have time to RSVP and get there for appetizers and martinis!

So, for those people who sit and say, oh gawd, friggin' facebook - that thing is the devil - I would never sign up for that..

you know you're asking your friends in the lunchroom at work, if they can look up your old boyfriend/girlfriend from junior high to see what their relationship status is... don't deny it!

As for me, the facebook free weekend is going fine, just fine.. so what if I don't know if my buddy who I met once at a party is out of the shower yet, or making dinner - or "just is" -- I'm okay, REALLY.