Thread: Work versus Facebook

Do you find it a struggle balancing the time you should be working against your addiction to Facebook?

If the answer is yes then you are exactly the same as me. :cheerful:

For this reason I have now moved the creative side of work into another room in the house. So it's only a minor stuggle now

I find myself on the same boat, althou its not always facebook, lots of other online activities sidetrack me now and then, that is where discipline comes into play. I wish I had some!!! LOL

LMAO Mike. Why do you think I've had to make the move?

Seriously though you know I'd stay up all night if it meant getting something finished for a client:angelic:

Same here except it isn't facebook that keeps me from getting something done lol especially if what I'm 'suppose' to do isn't at all interesting to me.

Yep I'm lucky in the fact I love my job, so thats a bonus. Just gotta be more disciplined

I think I can honestly say I do not have that problem. Facebook is good for networking. But I am far from addicted to it. I have been known not to log in for several days at a time sometimes.

Originally Posted by EmcardsEm

Yep I'm lucky in the fact I love my job, so thats a bonus. Just gotta be more disciplined

Yea, I love my job...I just loose attention easy lol.

Originally Posted by morpheus

I think I can honestly say I do not have that problem. Facebook is good for networking. But I am far from addicted to it. I have been known not to log in for several days at a time sometimes.

Oh good, glad someone can lol unlike myself :P

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Facebook. That's where I met LeenkzMike :happy-f:

As for not logging in for several days I was offline at home for almost a week, and became just as addicted to Facebook mobile as I did to the real thing!!!

As far as facebook specifically I have grown bored with it and actually posted a message to it a week or so ago that I am now retired from it. As far as balancing my online and offline world, I am fortunate that they are so intertwined that even when I am playing I still am working.

I try to avoid going on facebook because i always end up spending hours on it.

I don't have an addiction to Facebook, since I haven't really gotten into it yet.

At first, I just couldn't understand why people liked it. Then I started getting messages from old school friends etc. That gave me a sense of its amazing reach. Now that I've been adding friends, I keep seeing all their updates when I log in. I can start to see why people just can't leave it alone.

Still, I'm not hooked. (And frankly I hope it stays that way.) So, no struggle as yet ...

For me unfortunately the situation is the same...:dozey:

I agree with you EmcardsEm. That's why I spend a lot of time facing my computer. And it really destruct my work. That's why sometimes I'm taking with my self and saying last five minutes then untill it takes an hour haha,

lol for me I rarely open my facebook I just see what's happening around with my friends who post in there facebook. Or if someone has posted a comment in my pics or in my wall status.

I love my account in facebook, but I'm not addicted to it.

haha I work on Facebook... Marketing! lol

There was a point in my life when I got addicted to farm town, a game played on facebook. Arrghh, I decided to quit playing it because it interferes my work.

I use face book to keep in touch with friends, and whenever i get tired from work.that is a good platform to chit chat.

Facebook is cool and all but not an addiction for me. It's just what i do to relax or keep in touch with people, but that's it.

Yes I do struggle with balancing facebook and work. I actually limit myself to 5 minutes per day on Facebook because it gets so distracting.

Hi,
This is the nice post you are with a same mindset as me is there a better way to solve this problem in facebook or we had to move ??

Since my original post, I have gotten more disciplined. Now I can work on the PC and have Facebook open in another tab, which more often than not, then shows my online status as idle.

yeah sometime .. facebook does cause delay of work...

Facebook became very popular and I am so hooked to it since my friends are also always online. I usually have a chat to all my friends through facebook.

Originally Posted by EmcardsEm

Do you find it a struggle balancing the time you should be working against your addiction to Facebook?

If the answer is yes then you are exactly the same as me. :cheerful:

For this reason I have now moved the creative side of work into another room in the house. So it's only a minor stuggle now

LOL, I think everybody who works online has had trouble concentrating every now and then. The important thing is simply to focus on the task at hand and close any windows that are not relevant to that task. Just a bit of will power is all it takes.

Luckily my job IS being on Facebook, so i don't really have to worry about that. But I do think it can suck up a lot of time if you're not careful. There are programs that will automatically log you out of Facebook if you go over a preset daily time limit. I've found that to be helpful in the past.

I'm bored with facebook, because I don't have much friend to chat on facebook

Facebook versus work can be danger if facebook do not change themselves in to business term. Now facebook can be called earn with fun, i love to work there i have allot of projects there about fan pages.