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FaceBreak

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Amee in Mumblings, The Normal Stuff | No Comments

facebreak

To take a break from a particular productive activity (tradionally homework) to check your Facebook. Normally results in a non-productive hour.
Beth: Yes! We just completed the first 3 problems of our Chemistry homework!
Mary: Time for a facebreak!

Joe: I was in the library reading and decided to take a facebreak, next thing I knew it was midnight and I had got nothing done.
Billy: Fail.

2. facebreak

n. To take an extended break from Facebook … also facebreakation
Hey, I would’ve added you as a Top Friend, but I didn’t get your invite – I’m having a facebreak. Yeh. I’ve been on a facebreakation since August.

3. facebreak

The act of being broken up with on facebook.
I was going to break up with Pat in person, but I thought it’d be easier just to facebreak with him.

And so, 3 hours earlier I decided to take a Facebreak!! but I guess you cant withdraw from it right away and drastically.. Baby steps at a time…

Ackim sent me an article on MSNBC titled- Five reasons Why I took a Facebreak… I read it and laughed.. he thought that article would have been helpful to me… it was funny tho..

here isREASON 1:

No 1: The black hole

How many times have I told myself, I’m just going to sign in to Facebook for “a few minutes” … just need a quick fix … only to emerge two hours later, glassy-eyed, from the depths of this social networking bottomless pit, wondering where the time has gone.

When it comes to gobbling up the moments of our lives, Facebook is a black hole … siphoning away minutes, hours, days with its vortex-like pull. It starts innocently enough — someone asks to be your friend, and so you sign in to approve said friend request. But once you’ve signed in, Facebook has you in its clutches.

the other reasons basically deal with the guilt of adding someone or ignoring their request and also getting tagged in embarrassing photos.. I just wanted to share the 5th reason WHICH makes a lot of sense..

No. 5: You can check out …

All this talking about Facebook, and suddenly, I’m craving a peek at … Facebook. Just one, teeny-weeny little visit. A quick hit. I won’t stay long, I promise.

Wait. Whoa. What just happened? Oh, right, I just fell off the Facebook wagon … and lost two precious, productive hours of my life in the process.

Now that I’m back, I can tell you that in the five weeks I abstained from Facebook, I missed out on some important moments in my friends’ lives. One friend recently had a baby and he’s been keeping people up to date on his son’s arrival and the ensuing adorableness by using Facebook and Facebook alone, it seems. Meanwhile, old friends of mine came to town for a visit and then left, but I failed to connect with them because they tried to reach me via Facebook while I was taking my Facebreak. I haven’t seen them in a decade. Now, who knows when I’ll have another chance.

Which leads me to yet another reason I wish I’d never joined: Once you’ve checked into Hotel Facebook, you can check out any time you like … but you can never leave.

Amazingly THIS IS TRUE. You get so hooked unto it that you know about events on facebook.. you know who is out of the island ON FACEBOOK..
SAD but true!!

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