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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

(WEEK 1)
"We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life," Dalai Lama.

(WEEK TWO)
"I'm good at crossword puzzles, I'm not so good at people puzzles," Carrie Bradshaw.

(WEEK THREE)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great,"
Golda Meir (1898-1978).

(WEEK FOUR)
"It matter's not who you love, where you love, how you love or what you love, it matter's only that you love," John Lennon.

(WEEK FIVE)
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

(WEEK SIX)
"Get busy living or get busy dying".

(WEEK SEVEN)
"You are very squishy. So I shall name you squishy. And you shall be my little squishy," Dory from Finding Nemo.

(WEEK EIGHTH)
"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything," Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel.

(WEEK NINTH)
"The internet is a great way to get on the net," Bob Dole, Republican Presidential Candidate.

(WEEK TEN)
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff," Pop Singer Mariah Carey.

Is it just me or is it impossible to get any work done these days.

You can tell me I’ve got the shortest attention span, but there’s no way you can honestly say that you don’t do it too!?

Before, I go any further, I better clarify that the reason my work is NEVER completed twelve hours before it’s due, is because of that darn site FACEBOOK.

There is no way I can ever do research without logging onto the site. Then, of course, once logged in, there’s the Facebook chat, I get pulled into seeing people’s updated profiles, new photos, new music, new statuses, new applications, event invites, group invites, messages, comments, photo comments, updated profiles…

With all this thrown at my face, HOW CAN I FOCUS ON WORK? I’m just going to come out and say I think I have an addiction.

I mean even when I’m not researching but am simply writing an essay or some sort of uni related work, I still feel compelled to log onto Facebook.

It’s gotten to the stage where I’ve begun to wonder whether or not there’s a self-help group or something to cure this problem of mine.

Now I know people would just tell me to delete my profile, I may try but I know I will never go through with it. There’s something just so compelling about it that I feel it deserves a higher priority than any work I might have.

I’m not even joking; at work, I’m on Facebook. At home, I’m on Facebook. Right now, what a surprise, I’m on Facebook!

Wait though, I don’t think it is only me that has this craving. Exactly now my friend is sitting on the couch next to me (on Facebook, shock, horror) and as I write this, switching to Facebook every twenty seconds, we are also deeply committed to a Facebook chat with each other even though we sit about fifty centimetres apart. Sad and ridiculous I know!

I’ve truly entered the technological phase of existence that eliminates any form of personal, face to face communication.

Until the day comes when there is a Facebook Armageddon, my attention will forever be divided, and don’t count on you receiving the higher percentage of it.

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Facebook = Addiction?