{"id":1262,"date":"2012-06-26T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2012-06-26T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:45:09","slug":"a-week-without-coffee-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/a-week-without-coffee-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"A week without coffee and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve quit 2 things that I really love, coffee and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about my life and how much my imagination outstrips my pocketbook. What I&#8217;ve found is that I&#8217;ve gotta stop giving Mark my data.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I learned about quitting Facebook, and coffee.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a bit of a hangover the first few days.<\/li>\n<li>On Facebook some folks thought I killed myself or was in jail.\n<\/li>\n<li>Unlike coffee, Facebook has ever more subtle ways of tempting you back.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Facebook tempts you back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>E-mails saying that your friends miss you. And they highlight &#8220;friends&#8221; you only met once at a conference in 2006.\n<\/li>\n<li>If you subscribed to mobile updates, you are not unsubscribed. You still get status updates. You have to shut this off.<\/li>\n<li>In real life, very few friends will tolerate having to send you a &#8220;special invite,&#8221; to events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last bit is the real temptation here, and the real crux of the matter. Do you really want to not get invited to parties anymore. If you are a 23 year old partier who gets 20 to 30 invites per week, this is an issue. If you are wanting to purify yourself in a spiritual wilderness called an urban city of 1.2 million; ya &#8211; just cut the facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve found the benefits to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better and stable mood. I don&#8217;t get trolled in IRL as much as in Facebook.\n<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have to see what I don&#8217;t have all the time.\n<\/li>\n<li>I use the app called &#8220;Phone&#8221; on my smartphone more.\n<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t worry about having to get my next fix.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve quit 2 things that I really love, coffee and Facebook. I thought about my life and how much my imagination outstrips my pocketbook. What I&#8217;ve found is that I&#8217;ve gotta stop giving Mark my data. Here&#8217;s what I learned about quitting Facebook, and coffee. There&#8217;s a bit of a hangover the first few days. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}