Facebook has turned into addiction for a lot of people. Billions of people around the world are using it and this trend seems to continue growing. It has become ubiquitous such that people who are not using it are viewed as strangers by the others. You may be using Facebook to chat with a lot of your friends. A new message that comes can be a distraction to you, because it is a trigger to a downward spiral which you usually find yourself going, which is followed by a lot of wasted minutes, or even hours.
You went on Facebook just to check that message and reply to it, but then your friend had posted an interesting video that you started watching, and after that, you watched another one, until you became aware that you have already lost two hours of your day. Then you start to say to yourself that you are not that much productive and that is meant to be, forgetting that your lack of focus and dedication is causing a lot of stress, frustration and self-doubts about your abilities.
If you are registered on Facebook and you are aware that you waste a lot of time using it, but you are not willing to deactivate it, because of the friends and family, then I have a proposal for you: a Chrome plugin that can hide the News Feed content. It is called News Feed Eradicator which hides the News Feed content and replaces it with an inspiring quote. You will not see any post, link, video or image that your friends have posted and though it might seem a bit extreme, it can be a very effective way of reducing the time wasted only scrolling through the News Feed. You might want to activate this during your work hours, and deactivate it when you arrive home and then repeat this process.
It seems very simple, but it can have a huge impact. We should keep in mind that a few small changes might not be viewed as even worth doing an effort, because of the small impact that they have in the short-term. However, their compound effects which are continually built can have considerable impacts in the long-run.
