My friend is addicted to facebooking
By micha5088
@micha5088 (554)
Malaysia
September 9, 2012 9:00pm CST
My friend never misses posting at least three messages, most of the time more, in a day, in her facebook account. It is nothing wrong, it's not my business to tell her how to spend her time. But I notice that sometimes when I have urgent things to say and discuss with her, something related to her asset which is urgent, she will not pick up her phone. So, I email her in facebook, her reply is either slow or no reply at all. One time, I called her, she would say 'busy' but I saw her posting in facebook only a few minutes ago. She is a nice person but I think she is getting addicted to facebooking. This morning I called at her office, another friend answered the phone and said she's not in yet. She comes late to the office almost everyday. What do you think mylotters? Facebook is not paying anything to its members, at least if she is busy in mylot she can earn something. Will introduce her to mylot but I doubt she likes writing properly like we do here in mylot.
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12 responses
@redvakaurvaki (4216)
• Indonesia
10 Sep 12
yeah, it sounds she's very addictive to facebook. even so, she should know which one first to do and becomes priority. she should not ignore her friend for social networking site. if she did it for fun, I'm not sure she will interest in mylot -not everyone care with participate in discussion and earning cash. may be you have to tell her that instead busy with her facebook account, she also have to care with everything around her
@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 12
I really hope it is just a phase that she is going through. Maybe she is lonely and facebooking is making her less lonely. But I know that's not the case, she has many family members and friends who really care about her. *sigh* Next time, if she doesn't reply my call I just post on her facebook "hello hello are you there? why aren't you picking my call?". I wonder if I do this, what effect it will do to our friendship. Gee I prefer to just let it passed.
@redvakaurvaki (4216)
• Indonesia
11 Sep 12
yeaah, may be facebook is the current place she wants to communicate with. but of course, she can talk everything widely on facebook. we still need real communication such as sms or phone call
@mrswhitfield (2044)
• Indonesia
12 Sep 12
I think a few years ago my friends are also very addicted to facebook. They always force me to create an account on facebook. Now I notice that they are bored with facebook, they are now more noise on twitter.
@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
12 Sep 12
So now they like twitter better than facebook. I feel that just having facebook and mylot are enough to keep my hands busy. I keep my facebook account because I use it to promote my products. Twitter??? That'll have to wait.
@jugsjugs (12967)
•
11 Sep 12
I prefer to be on here rather than on face book, as there is no one to start a argument on here about other friends that I have.
I do feel that there are people that tend to get hooked on face book, but after a while they get bored of it.
I go on face book and come straight off it, as it is the same old things that people have been going on about all the time.
I am sure that your friend will get bored of it after a while.
@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
10 Sep 12
HI micha: I think that there's nothing you can do excepting mentioning how bad this behaviour is and how it's affecting your friendshipe and her work developmen. But she is the only one who can take the final decision. I hope she doesn't get fired or get a bad decision for staying too much time on facebook.
ALVARO
@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 12
I don't really mind her doing the things she likes, like facebooking. Only she has to know her priority. Facebook is definitely not a necessity in our life so the priority is zero. Sometimes, I think she is acting like a snall innocent kid. Hopefully, it is just a phase.
@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
10 Sep 12
What if she told you, you can not pay her happiness. He he. Well I also have a lot of friends who are like that. As of now that I don't have much time yet, I just let it pass but by the time that I am not busy anymore I will already introduce everything about proper time management. . . That is myLotting. Have a nice day!
@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 12
Yes, that's true too. She is not the only one doing that; there are many, I am sure, who post every little thing about themselves on facebook, as if the world is need of updates on their life. Facebook is creating many narciss.
@Otanetix (508)
• United States
10 Sep 12
Between Facebook and myLot, I spend more time on myLot, which I would highly suggest you recommend myLot to your friend. I have had my Facebook account for four years, and I have gotten past the phase of constantly checking my Facebook account. While I never posted as frequently as your friend did per day, I only check my Facebook maybe around once every other day. For me, the hype for using Facebook does not excite me anymore. I hope your friend resolves their Facebook addiction.
@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 12
I will introduce her to mylot. But I really don't know if she likes hard work, you know, like lots and lots of writing. The reason why we're in mylot because we work hard by writing. So, I don't know if she can face up to this challenge. Anyway, I'll just try.
@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
10 Sep 12
Indeed, it is really better to spend most of our spare time here instead of Facebook.
I know a person who is like this,used to post status almost every hour.Sometimes it is really wall flooding, most of the status and updates that you will read is just from him.
@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 12
Yes, I know what you mean. You can say facebook is encouraging many people to be a narciss...After all, that is the main objective...to promote yourself! For business page it is good but for personal life, it is better not.
@Raine38 (12250)
• United States
10 Sep 12
Too much of anything is bad, and that includes Facebooking. I understand your concern because she is your friend but you are right. You cannot do so much on how she uses her free time, or all of her time. You can however, try to influence her to try to step out in front of the computer and do something else that will be more interactive other than sitting in front of the PC all day Facebooking away.
@caopaopao (12395)
• China
10 Sep 12
I can see that she is really addicted to facebook
. Now I am a little addicted to mylot. But I am sure I won't be late for my work , I am just having my holiday so I spent more time here. Maybe she made some friends there and they had very attractive thing to talk , so she just can't help. I am sure there is a reason that she is addicted to it. Do you know that? If you know the reason, maybe you can help her easily. If she just feels bored and wants to spend her time, I think mylot is really a good place for her
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. Now I am a little addicted to mylot. But I am sure I won't be late for my work , I am just having my holiday so I spent more time here. Maybe she made some friends there and they had very attractive thing to talk , so she just can't help. I am sure there is a reason that she is addicted to it. Do you know that? If you know the reason, maybe you can help her easily. If she just feels bored and wants to spend her time, I think mylot is really a good place for her.@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 12
Yes, having friends that she personally knows in facebook is the main reason I think why she is stucked in facebook. Maybe also there are handsome man, who knows. But she is not that young anymore, so it is a bit out of place to see her like this.
@cashforus (75)
• Philippines
10 Sep 12
Hello! You can help your friend! Share about the good stuff here in mylot and how well she can learn from people's thoughts here. Me, myself is enjoying mylot soo much.
@micha5088 (554)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 12
Yes I too am enjoying myself in mylot.The reward really motivates me *laugh*.
