You come to the office excited, not because of an exciting task that has just been assigned to you by your boss but simply because you are expecting comments on those photos that you have just uploaded yesterday. You are a good employee who understands his job well and know that the reason you are at work is that people are expecting your contribution to the company. Then you think that peeking at your facebook account wont hurt. Anyway, it is only going to take 2 minutes and you still have 7 hours and 58 minutes left for work. Afterall, you are only going to check out those little red numbers at the upper left corner of your screen when opening your facebook account.
You saw some messages and decided to reply; and then a notification that someone also commented on a picture that you have previously commented on. Then another notification that someone liked the photo you have uploaded yesterday. Wow, it feels good! Before you know it, you have just easily spent 20 minutes on facebook.
It is time to start getting busy, and so you think. But before signing out, you saw on your wall new pictures of your latest gimmick party that has just been uploaded by your officemate. Oh you are not the only one using facebook at work! You then decided to check out that album, liked on each picture. Then you decided to post fun comments on that picture of a drunken officemate. Seconds later, a blue notification popped up on the lower left side of your screen telling you that one of your officemates also posted a comment on that photo that you have just commented on. You decided to comment back. You are now having fun. The pictures comments is now a thread of conversation. Hahaha! You silently laughed in front of your monitor. Before you log out, an hour has already passed.
You now get back to work, feeling guilty. You are a good employee so your boss does not mind how you use your time in the office as long as you are able to deliver what you are expected to, at least based on your assumptions. Thinking of all the other productive tasks that you would have accomplished in that hour, you say to yourself, this would be the last time. You promise yourself that tomorrow you will not open your facebook account in the office until you have finished all the day's work.
The next day, you come to the office excited, not because of an exciting task that has just been assigned to you by your boss but simply because you are expecting comments on those photos that you have just commented on yesterday. You remember that you have promised to yourself that you will not open facebook until you have finished all the day's work. Then you think that peeking at your facebook account wont hurt. Anyway, it is only going to take 2 minutes and you still have 7 hours and 58 minutes left for work. Afterall, you are only going to check out those little red numbers at the upper left corner of your screen when opening your facebook account.
And so.... the cycle continues.
This may just be one case of facebook addiction nowadays. In this article: Facebook Addiction, which refers to facebook as "the latest evil in cyberspace", the author implies that indulgence in any of the following activities could qualify you to be a facebook addict, someone suffering from or at least vulnerable to the so-called Facebook Addiction Disorder. I quote:
Furthermore, here is a shorter way to determine if you are a facebook addict (also quoted from another article):
So are you one of us? Ahm, I mean are you a facebook addict? You may also share your own experience that is related to facebook addiction by posting comments below. Here are some tips on how to be effective at work even with facebook.
You saw some messages and decided to reply; and then a notification that someone also commented on a picture that you have previously commented on. Then another notification that someone liked the photo you have uploaded yesterday. Wow, it feels good! Before you know it, you have just easily spent 20 minutes on facebook.
It is time to start getting busy, and so you think. But before signing out, you saw on your wall new pictures of your latest gimmick party that has just been uploaded by your officemate. Oh you are not the only one using facebook at work! You then decided to check out that album, liked on each picture. Then you decided to post fun comments on that picture of a drunken officemate. Seconds later, a blue notification popped up on the lower left side of your screen telling you that one of your officemates also posted a comment on that photo that you have just commented on. You decided to comment back. You are now having fun. The pictures comments is now a thread of conversation. Hahaha! You silently laughed in front of your monitor. Before you log out, an hour has already passed.
You now get back to work, feeling guilty. You are a good employee so your boss does not mind how you use your time in the office as long as you are able to deliver what you are expected to, at least based on your assumptions. Thinking of all the other productive tasks that you would have accomplished in that hour, you say to yourself, this would be the last time. You promise yourself that tomorrow you will not open your facebook account in the office until you have finished all the day's work.
The next day, you come to the office excited, not because of an exciting task that has just been assigned to you by your boss but simply because you are expecting comments on those photos that you have just commented on yesterday. You remember that you have promised to yourself that you will not open facebook until you have finished all the day's work. Then you think that peeking at your facebook account wont hurt. Anyway, it is only going to take 2 minutes and you still have 7 hours and 58 minutes left for work. Afterall, you are only going to check out those little red numbers at the upper left corner of your screen when opening your facebook account.
And so.... the cycle continues.
This may just be one case of facebook addiction nowadays. In this article: Facebook Addiction, which refers to facebook as "the latest evil in cyberspace", the author implies that indulgence in any of the following activities could qualify you to be a facebook addict, someone suffering from or at least vulnerable to the so-called Facebook Addiction Disorder. I quote:
- You wake up in the morning, and first thing you do is log onto your Facebook account.
- You spend more than an hour on Facebook - at a stretch or in short episodes over regular intervals.
- You and your siblings converse through Facebook wall and messages, even though you stay in same house.
- You can't seem to stop thinking about Facebook updates and comments when you are offline.
- You check Facebook for updates and comments after every hour at your workstation or on your cell phone.
- You look forward to get home in the evening so that you can see what is happening in cyberspace (on Facebook to be precise.)
- Your Facebook wall is full of status updates, comments, and applications that you just used.
- You can't go for a day without using Facebook, and even this thought makes you go into sort of depression.
- You give priority to Facebook over your commitments in professional and personal life.
- And lastly, your day ends with you checking Facebook for that one last time and bidding people 'good nite' through your facebook status update.
Furthermore, here is a shorter way to determine if you are a facebook addict (also quoted from another article):
- You lose sleep over Facebook
- You spend more than an hour a day on Facebook
- You become obsessed with old loves
- You ignore work in favor of Facebook
- The thought of getting off Facebook leaves you in a cold sweat
So are you one of us? Ahm, I mean are you a facebook addict? You may also share your own experience that is related to facebook addiction by posting comments below. Here are some tips on how to be effective at work even with facebook.
