How To Survive Facebook

This is another post that although written with bands in mind, it will help many non-musicians as well I think. Facebook is a very busy site. It is full of what many call ‘noise’ and if you are a busy person it can be very annoying. However, there is a way for the busy person to survive the noise of Facebook. If you go to my profile on Facebook I have a notice right at the top that says I reject all the garbage. The problem with Facebook is that it is made for people that need “busy work”. They need brainless time killers to pass the time. If you are one of the people that spend tons of time with all this busy work, you are not a busy person. Seriously, if you need tons of time killers…you have time to kill. I however do not have time to kill, so do everything I can to reject every single time killer. I don’t have time to kill.

It is very tempting to get caught up in the brainlessness that is Facebook though. It ends up being a game in and of it’s self to kill all the time killers. One thing you must understand though is that Facebook is designed to play on your guilt. When a friend sends you an invite you end up feeling like a total jerk for not accepting the invite. Don’t! The truth is that your friend probably doesn’t know they sent you the invite, didn’t intend to send you the invite, and has no way to track who reject the invite. When they go to set up the app for themselves, it sends an invite to all their contacts by default. Most people feel bad about it after it is sent anyways. No friend wants to fill your Facebook inbox with unwanted messages. We all hate spam, but Facebook by default love what sending that spam does for their network. So don’t feed the spam monster and just reject everything.

A few of you by now might be wondering why I am on Facebook if I don’t want to take a quiz to find out which member of the Back Street Boys I am, how big of an American Idol fan I am, or which wanna be vampire from Twilight I most want to see ‘glow’ in the sunlight? I ask those people what is so wrong with just plain old conversation? Share a photo, share a news article, or just ask a question. Do we need an app to tell a joke? Do we need an app to post a poll question? Facebook can be a great networking tool, but it can also be the most evil time killer around. So please take a stand with me for true interaction, conversation, and networking. Reject every single poll, quiz, survey, app, game, and invitation. We no longer have time to kill!