Quitting Cold Turkey

Well, I did it.  Actually, did it.  I deactivated my facebook account.  Going cold turkey.

After Christmas, I came off facebook for awhile, and I was amazed at how much I could accomplish with my time.  Five minutes to spare?   I could fold laundry, sweep the floor, hoover the stairs, hang out a wash, read the next  chapter in my book....  But when on facebook, a quick log in and thirty minutes, an hour, could pass very quickly.  But I hadn't deactivated my account - I wasn't posting, and I wasn't liking or commenting on threads, but I was still logging in the odd time and checking out statuses, seeing what was happening.  Eventually, I got pulled back in.  And when I was back, I was back.  Back to posting on a regular basis and feeling a sense of achievement with every new 'like'.  I was also invited back into my closed groups and I quickly became ensnared once again in the sometimes dysfunctional, sometimes funny, but always honest dramas of other members' secret soap opera lives.  Another group was related to weight loss, and again I was posting about fitness and losing weight, instead of actually getting up off my arse and getting fit and losing weight.

I have so much to do in my house, the least of which is cleaning (which gives an idea of just how much I have to do!!) and yet I found myself today sitting on the couch, for just a second!, to check into facebook.  It was a eureka moment - I had to quit facebook, and leave it cold turkey.  The only way to get my life back was to deactivate my facebook life.