Who Says Addiction Doesn't Have A Cure?

Many, many, and should I say many people are OBSESSED with social networks sites. Whether its just refreshing your page on face book until something interesting comes up, stalking and writing tweets, uploading pictures, skyping for long hours in group chats or with your boyfriend, its become the biggest craze and the biggest disease the human race has seen yet. So much, that people WANT to sit home instead of going out.  Ever since our school has introduced the one to one laptop program, where the curriculum depends on technology and we have to use our computer in all classes, students just stopped paying attention. Computer at school, computer at lunch, computer at home, its become ridiculous at times. As much as you or I want to stop it, we can because were simply addicted. My dad says that my boyfriend is my computer because its the one thing i JUST can't live without and he's unfortunately right. I've tried the deactivating method on face book but it sucks because it doesn't really prevent you from logging back on, you can log in whenever you want. My cousin who is the BIGGEST multi-tasker I know told me she just had to figure out a way to stop this addiction of hers and she did find a way; it's called SelfControl.


SelfControl 
Okay, so not its not what you think it is. It has nothing to do with our brain or body, and you don't have to put any effort, its actually a program. It's an application which blocks access to incoming or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. You could block your mail, face book, and twitter for the amount of time you want to, but still have access to do your research for the paper your writing. The good thing about SelfControl is that once you set a certain time, you can't undo it, the computer is automatically locked from all your social network sites, which is different from deactivating your face book account. No matter if your hands automatically type facebook.com it will not allow you to access the page and that's the beauty of it. It's simple, it quick, and i GUARANTEE you that you will get your work done so much faster and put so much more effort if you stay away from these social network sites.

I'm not saying that you're never going to procrastinate, but this will definitely help you do it less specially if you get home late and you want to go to bed early!


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