the not so social network

I'll explain...

Sometime ago I decided to give up Facebook and Twitter for a month. I picked June as the month to give it up, it was to establish, a few things really;

A) What will I miss out? Gossip, Events, News, Britney News etc...
2) How addicted am I to Facebook/Twitter?
C) Would anyone actually miss me?
4) What does my exsistance in The Social Network actually contribute?

I probably knew the answers to the above without having to actually leave FB and Twitter;

1) Quite a lot of Britney news or certainly delayed in discovering it, probably not so much of the rest.
B) Very
3) Unlikely
D) Not a lot I would imagine, even if The Sunday Times list of social networkers has me in the 4000's, whatever that means.

It's been a week now and this all leads me onto...

WEEK ONE

The first day started, obviously, at 0000 hours on 1st June 2011. I was on a Night duty, and the first thing I wanted to do as I was due to finish at 0300 hours was to tweet how annoyed I was for being forced to stay at work due to an incident. I don't normally mind but night shifts are the hardest shifts to get through and I just wanted my bed so bad!

The rest of the week has been similiar, I have done well, immediately deleted the FB/Twitter apps off of my phone and have resisted reinstalling them and having a sneaky peek.

I am quite an honest person and if I did this then I would only be cheating myself and my wee experiment would be pointless.

The biggest change I have seen this week is that I am using other services, Grindr, for example, I rarely used it prior to my annual leave from FB/Twitter, but I have found myself using it more, through boredom if anything else, during journey's to and from work mostly and even at home when I would normally be tweeting or booking.

Overall thus far I have had the biggest urge to tweet, rather than use FB.

Coming Soon

WEEK TWO