New Rule: visit twitter and facebook only once per day

For the last 9 months or so, I've written less and less on undefined, but I've been increasingly active on twitter and facebook.

I've gotten to a level where, whenever I fire up a blank browser window, the first address I have the urge to type is facebook or twitter; also, no matter how busy I am, every 5 minutes, compulsively, I'll fire up a browser window and type the address of twitter or facebook automatically, as if taking some kind of a break from the task at hand. Or if I'm away from the computer, I constantly check facebook and twitter on my iPhone: I reply to tweets and comments on facebook wherever I may be. I'm "connected" all the time, everywhere, anywhere.

I follow 50+ people on twitter and almost 150 people on facebook, and the content they generate is huge; on twitter, on a regular day, the people I follow will post more than 100 tweets (it can get to much, much more than that if feeder has a good news day, or if diplo gets an urge to tweet every 5 seconds before his show), and I haven't even bothered to count on facebook - the volume of links, notes, status updates, photos, videos, whatnot there is staggering.

On twitter I follow some of the people that I most dearly admire and respect, but I don't know half of them in person; on facebook, I've met almost everyone there at least once, but I'd say more than 80 percent are just acquaintances I've made over the years. This is madness on my part - it means that the amount of useless information about other people's lives that I'm fed every day is huge. The time I spend just reading that information probably amounts to something like 30 minutes to 1 hour every day. I have to find a better way to waste my time. And I've developed some sort of ADD, where I can't concentrate on the task at hand for more than 5 minutes; my work performance lately has been rubbish, and I can't seem to correct that in any way.

I need a break from all this. So here we go: New Rule - I shall henceforth visit facebook and twitter only once per day. Let's see for how long I can keep it up :)