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Posted by syl, 29th November 2010:
 
I have removed everybody from my Facebook account, so please don't be offended. (Not that anybody cares about me anyway) I am spending too much time on Facebook...I've got a few family members now and that's it. Facebook is just so damn addictive, isn't it?
Posted by che, 29th November 2010:
 
boo!
Posted by WarHead, 29th November 2010:
 
Facebook is just so damn addictive, isn't it?

Not to me, it isn't. I can't fucking stand it.
Posted by syl, around 30th November 2010:
 
Ha! Then you won't mind my absence! I am going to wean myself off it. It's shitty.
Posted by jeffry, around 30th November 2010:
 
delete your facebook account! do it!
Posted by arsepuppy, around 1st December 2010:
 
I need to do that. Only kept it to keep in touch with family, but our family setup went massively tits-up over the span of the last two years and all the worst of it is unfolding on there. For "family political" reasons I have to stay on it, but only use it to stay in touch with technophobic friends. Otherwise can't bear the place - it's all baby scans, casual racism against Muslims and Farmville on there these days.
Posted by syl, around 1st December 2010:
 
I had already blocked all the games, even though I myself was a Farmville addict for a while. Glad I kicked *that* habit. AP what do you mean your family setup went tits-up?
Posted by jeffry, around 1st December 2010:
 
I haven't been on FB for over 2 years now, although i did miss it at first and my friends seemed to forget i existed for a while, it seems they're now doing the same. I barely miss it at all now!
Posted by arsepuppy, around 1st December 2010:
 
Syl: Too much to go into here, plus some of it is too bad to discuss publically.
Posted by arsepuppy, around 1st December 2010:
 
*publicly, even.
Posted by Miki, around 2nd December 2010:
 
that all sounds very stressful AP


I dont mind facebook but I dont use it much, just put some pics up and check peoples updates in the evening and poke beargod
Posted by syl, around 2nd December 2010:
 
I'm sorry AP :(
Don't worry, my family is pretty tits-up too.
Posted by syl, around 2nd December 2010:
 
Doc I didn't know you went to Peru
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/ear...
Posted by syl, around 2nd December 2010:
 
I think I'll remove one person every week until I have no contacts and then I'll delete my account. How sad!
Posted by syl, around 2nd December 2010:
 
I just found a purpose for Facebook! Traffic updates!
Posted by che, 3rd December 2010:
 
syl, now you don't get to see the pictures of my adorable son!
Posted by syl, around 4th December 2010:
 
che...
Posted by Grim..., around 4th December 2010:
 
casual racism against Muslims and Farmville

I hate people who are racist against Farmville.
Posted by Uncle Moc, around December 2010:
 
I'm totally hooked on it. But I think that's because I don't have the patience to have a blog any more, so it's a bit easier to put rants / links up there where people can see them.

Saying that, if I didn't have a job that involved looking at a computer screen all day I think I'd break the habit pretty fast.

Syl: You're the second person to send me that owl. It's a good owl.
Posted by syl, around December 2010:
 
Glad yer like it :)
Posted by syl, around December 2010:
 
Doc, you remind me of Johhny Depp.
Posted by syl, around 14th December 2010:
 
I'm down to 25 friends. Wooo hooo! :(
Posted by Uncle Moc, around 14th December 2010:
 
Is it the way I type?
Posted by Miki, around 14th December 2010:
 
yes it's too loud
Posted by syl, around 14th December 2010:
 
No :(
Posted by syl, around 14th December 2010:
 
This addiction is proving very hard to kick.....hey!
Posted by eatmypiano, around 14th December 2010:
 
I've just noticed lots of iamcal people have abandoned me :-( Something I said?
Posted by che, around 15th December 2010:
 
have they?
Posted by che, around 15th December 2010:
 
you're still on my list aren't you?
Posted by Miki, around 15th December 2010:
 
I dont delete people so if we were connected before we should still be
Posted by eatmypiano, around 18th December 2010:
 
Miki - I don't think we've ever been connected: Steve

Che - and everyone else - they've all come back so either my post was a reminder or Facebroke was having an off day.
Posted by syl, around 18th December 2010:
 
I am not deleting people. You are all still there. Facebook is not existence.
Posted by syl, around 18th December 2010:
 
I don't like this, people living their lives on Facebook.
Posted by Miki, around 18th December 2010:
 
I don't live my life on facebook
nothing wrong with checking it in the evenings though

emp, very cute boys!
Posted by eatmypiano, around 18th December 2010:
 
@Miki - thanks!

@Syl - you weren't one of them. Sul, BG, WH, Delores & Rosie all vanished and have all come back. I did't look to see if anyone (non-iamcal) was missing. I only noticed it because Che's christmas card came through to lots of people called "facebook user"

@Syl - Facebook is a communications tool like a mobile phone or iamcal discussions. I don't live on it (too busy running around after kids) but it does allow me find out what my friends who haven't had kids are doing :-) Oh, and to be in the Mafia.
Posted by Miki, around 18th December 2010:
 
oh I dont block people but I do block those sort of messages, mafia and farmville etc, bleh!
Posted by syl, around 19th December 2010:
 
Yeah, I blocked all the games too. I blocked a lot of people from B3ta. I'm going on an internet fast. Feel like I'm getting sucked into it and it's taking over my life.
Posted by syl, around 2nd January 2011:
 
11.02.2011 Golden era begins
Posted by che, around 2nd January 2011:
 
golden era of what? palindromes?
Posted by syl, around 2nd January 2011:
 
spiritual enlightenment :)
(not really spiritual - bad word - no word to describe it)
Posted by WarHead, around 2nd January 2011:
 
Can you give us a bit more to go on? A link, perhaps. Or is this a personal golden age of your own devising?
Posted by syl, around 3rd January 2011:
 
www.jodunning.com/Public/Ho...
Posted by WarHead, around 6th January 2011:
 
Can I get some snake oil from her?
Posted by syl, around January 2011:
 
hahaha