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    Dealing With (And Enjoying!) Your Facebook Addiction!
    Dealing With (And Enjoying!) Your Facebook Addiction!
    Dealing With (And Enjoying!) Your Facebook Addiction!
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    Dealing With (And Enjoying!) Your Facebook Addiction!

    By Kendall Weaver

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    This irreverent and funny look at Facebook use will sound a bit too familiar for many. It's a quick read, and a perfect gift for that "Friend" of yours who lives by the book. Facebook.

    Some Chapters:

    Chapter 1: What Facebook is. A primer for Facebook virgins.

    Chapter 2: Admitting you have a problem. And embracing it! Signs that you are spending too much time on Facebook.

    Chapter 3: The many faces of Facebook. The Lonely Heart, The Narcissist, The Entertainer, Angry Dude, The Politically Correct, The Proud Stoker, The Cat Lover, Ahh.. Good Puppy, Support Our Troops, My Kid is Better Than Your Kid, Dear God, The Related, The Game Player, The Stalker.

    Chapter 6: Things you could be doing besides Facebook. (Alternate title: What we did before Facebook)

    Chapter 9: When you should stop using Facebook. A five day plan for cutting back.

    Chapter 10: 7 days without Facebook; An experiment.
    ..and more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKendall Weaver
    Release dateApr 14, 2012
    ISBN9781476428086
    Dealing With (And Enjoying!) Your Facebook Addiction!
    Author

    Kendall Weaver

    Kendall Weaver is a longtime radio DJ, singer, and writer of things comical. Enjoy his lighthearted and funny take on Facebook, and the way it's affected our lives. A perfect gift for that Facebook addicted friend!

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      Dealing With (And Enjoying!) Your Facebook Addiction! - Kendall Weaver

      Dealing With (And Enjoying!( Your Facebook Addiction!

      Kendall Weaver

      Copyright 2010 by Kendall Weaver

      Smashwords Edition

      Dedication:

      To all my Facebook Friends. May everyone always Like you.

      Contents

      Chapter 1: What Facebook is. A primer for Facebook virgins.

      Chapter 2: Admitting you have a problem. And embracing it! Signs that you are spending too much time on Facebook.

      Chapter 3: The many faces of Facebook. The Lonely Heart, The Narcissist, The Entertainer, Angry Dude, The Politically Correct, The Proud Stoker, The Cat Lover, Ahh.. Good Puppy, Support Our Troops, My Kid is Better Than Your Kid, Dear God, The Related, The Game Player, The Stalker.

      Chapter 4: The Possession: How every time you think you’re out, Facebook pulls you back!

      Chapter 5: The Mistaken Post: Accidentally sharing things meant to be private. Also, the 10-year-old profile picture.

      Chapter 6: Things you could be doing besides Facebook. (Alternate title: What we did before Facebook)

      Chapter 7: Other things like Facebook. (You know…. Twitter!)

      Chapter 8: Strategies for perfecting your Facebook presence: How to attract more Friends. How to entertain your Friends. The annoying stuff.

      Chapter 9: When you should stop using Facebook. A five day plan for cutting back.

      Chapter 10: 7 days without Facebook; An experiment.

      Chapter 11: The future of Facebook:

      Trust me. I have lots of Facebook Friends.

      Chapter 1: What Facebook is. A primer for Facebook virgins.

      Remember when you used to communicate with your family and friends by either calling them or writing them letters? No? Oh yeah.. I guess I’m showing my age a bit here. But trust me.. we used to actually sit down with a pen and paper – never mind a computer – and write letters to our friends who lived in other cities. I have actually letters to prove it! You’d write the letter.. maybe a few pages worth.. and put a stamp on it and mail it. Two or three days later, your friend would receive it in his or her mailbox, open it, and read it. Then they would sit down and write you a letter back. Sometimes, if you were a really good letter-writer, you might actually include some pictures of yourself or your family or town, just to amuse the person you were sending the letter to. Now, remember, those pictures… they were taken on something called film, 12 or 24 pictures to a roll, then dropped off at the local drugstore or film place, and in a few days.. yes.. days.. you got back an envelope filled with pictures. Many of these pictures were blurry. Others were black. And others were charming, except for your big fat thumb taking up most of the frame. Anyways, you’d pick through these pictures and hopefully one or two of them might actually be okay, and if you wanted, you could even pay extra to get another copy of the one you liked.

      Then, when things got either really exciting or really boring, you could actually take the huge step of calling your friend on the phone. This may be shocking, but the phone companies used to charge what was called long distance charges for these calls to other cities. In a way, this made the occasional call to long lost friends or relatives more special; knowing that every second on the phone was costing you. It showed someone they were important to you.

      America, and the rest of the world, graduated from this type of letter writing and calling when Email arrived. Once the internet came into existence, we could type a letter inside of our computer, click a button on the screen and the person on the other end would receive it almost instantly! It was amazing! And it came with a few problems; For one, the mentality of communicating changed. It’s fun to talk with Aunt Sue once every few months to get caught up with family news and events. But it’s quite different when Aunt Sue starts to think she’s a technology wiz and writes you every day. I mean, why not? It doesn’t cost anything, and this way she can really be a part of your every day life. It also means you’re obligated to write the crazy old woman back every freakin time, which can drain your senses after a while. Besides, some people just don’t seem to know

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