Social Stalking

It's a new day and I have to focus on the good things in life.

Lately my life has been consumed with work, coffee, shopping and social networking. 

A LOT of social networking... and I can't really even call it social "networking" it's more like social stalking. Yep. That's what it should be changed to.

Social Stalking. 

Kind of has a ring to it, don't ya think?

I get up at the crack ass of dawn and shut my alarm off. I then grab my phone...

Scroll through FB until I make it to the last post I read which was more than likely the one I fell asleep reading or commenting on. Then I scroll through Instagram... REPEAT. Scroll through the Popular posts on Pinterest and Pin a few too many, then put my phone down and shower. 

Then I turn on Pandora, listen to some good ole' Gavin Degraw to get myself prepared for this concert Friday night and then I get ready... checking FB every time I have a free hand. You know, when I brush my teeth, flat iron or curl, and put on lipstick. Usually at this time I am on the phone with my BIFF and that's literally the LONGEST time I go without social networking stalking. Whelp, I take that back. Sometimes I sit on the phone with her and I will have FB open on my macbook. Mer. I suck.

So... It's been hectic even before I have left the house to go to work. 

Then, I get to work... sit my phone on my desk next to my ever so great iced coffee (usually from Starbucks but I've been cutting back!) and I log on... check some emails, browse the database for new leads, etc. and then I unlock my phone to check FB again.

WHY am I so addicted to the drama, news feeds, blogs, posts, pictures on Instagram ... ETC. ETC. ETC. WHY! Seriously, what is the REAL reason we go on FB? Stalk other people, look at their photos, posts, talk about their photos and posts... what they're up to now, looking up other people to see what they have done or most likely talking about things they haven't done... it's terrible. It is seriously causing our generation to be a judgmental, critical, brutal, mean generation. I refuse to be like that! I am so over it.

My life has been consumed. So I am taking a step back. I have two books on my coffee table next to me that I haven't finished because by the time I get home I am on my phone or laptop again. I have a two year old who I love reading with and playing with and somehow, someway I feel that need to FB, Instagram, and all this other crap that's not necessary. 

So as of tonight my FB is deactivated. Deleted from my phone and macbook fav list and I haven't even been tempted to log on. If you know me, that's taking a lot of freakin' effort to not just log in...  Damn.

So I have taken this time to research some children's books that I am in the process of thinking about writing, looking at my blogs thinking how I need to write more in life and about more interesting things... and listening to some good music on Pandora. 

Goodnight all.