It’s hard to quit a habit. And even though it’s physically not toxic, your habit of Facebook creeping is one of the most addictive habits ever.
It’s a part of you. It’s pretty much a muscle. You don’t know what you’d do without it, how you’d live, how’d you breathe.
But you can do it. And you should, because you’ll feel better and live better. This is what happens when you stop Facebook creeping . . .
First of all, you feel amazing.
You get some work done.
Because yes, we know that the majority of your day at work is spent on Facebook, waiting for something exciting to happen. And then the clock strikes 4, and you have to cram a day’s worth of work into one hour.
You see the light.
The light of the sun, not the blue light coming from your phone or computer. Also, the light at the end of the tunnel is clearer because your eyes aren’t watery from staring at Facebook on a screen all the time.
Your anxiety cools down a bit.
Without constantly looking at other people’s apparently perfect lives, you have less competition, and less to worry about.
You realize who your real friends are.
There are friends, and there are Facebook friends. If Facebook didn’t exist, there’s a handful of people who wouldn’t be interested in being your friend. And those are friends you stop wasting your time on.
You find a new hobby.
Instead of stalking your ex’s new girlfriend, and/or the most popular girl from your high school, you do valuable things with your time that make you feel good about yourself.
You find a new hobby.
And it’s much better than getting into a Facebook creep mode until 2am on a Tuesday.
For once in your life you appreciate nature, and all of your surroundings.
You go outside, and you see giant plants with brown stems and big bushes of leaves. You think about looking up what they are on your phone, but then you remember that they are trees.
You have actual conversations with your friends.
That aren’t about someone’s Facebook picture, or someone’s Facebook post. Actual conversations about real things happened in your now, very real, world.
You look people in the eye.
Instead of down at your phone.
You’re worry free.
Without hundreds of “friends” in your every day life, you don’t constantly worry about what people you weren’t even friends with in high school are doing right now.
You don’t see annoying pictures that ruin your day.
Of people who—for some unexplained reason—are always on vacation. And because you don’t see all these vacation pics every day, you don’t spend the majority of your day wondering how they pay for all these vacations. And you stop wondering, if they have a job, what kind of job do they have that allows them to literally always be on vacation? And whatever job that is, I want it now.
You read a book for the first time in, like, 6 years.
Or, maybe, ever.
