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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

How to Avoid Facebook Addiction

These days we can see most of the people are Facebook addicted. You can easily come to know if you are also a Facebook addict or not by answering few of the questions. But I know how to overcome Facebook addiction and I will surely give you best Tips to stop Facebook Addiction. By following below points strictly you will surely avoid Facebook addiction.


Steps to Stop Facebook Addiction

1. Identify your Best time to use Facebook

Don’t keep Facebook on for 24×7 on your laptop or mobile phones. Making a best schedule according to your requirements will help you to avoid Facebook addiction in effective way. Hence identify your goals on Facebook, make your Facebook schedule according to your goals and needs and strictly adhere to that schedule.
  
2. Limit your Friendlist

It’s never a good idea to keep thousands of unknown friends on Facebook. If you have lots of Friends on Facebook, their updates will create mess on your Facebook news feeds and you will end up with non productive Facebook profile. You can always decide criteria to make Friends on Facebook. Sometimes this is proven to be dangerous to have more (unknown) friends on Facebook.


   3. Don’t like/follow All available Pages/Groups

I have seen, Facebook users keep liking Facebook pages even though these pages are not providing any valuable information and just keep giving one or the other stolen information from others. Such pages are just annoying when you look their feeds on your news feed section. Similarly joining lots of not required Facebook Groups also end you with hundreds of notifications. By limiting them you can easily stop Facebook addiction. You can always “Unlike” such pages or “Leave” such groups.


   4. Control Facebook Notifications

Most important part to overcome Facebook addiction is controlling notifications on your Facebook profile. I strongly suggest to disable push notifications on your mobile or limit them for important updates and messages. You can always choose which notification should come and few non important notifications can be disabled. Click Here to control your Facebook notifications.

   5. Optimize your News Feeds

Whenever you login onto Facebook you will get hundreds of feeds on your news feeds section, which might be annoying sometimes specially when you have hundreds of friends and lots of Facebook page likes and groups joined. If you don’t want to remove any friends, unlike any pages then best way is to optimize your News Feeds to stop Facebook Addiction as you will get only optimized feeds and hence don’t have much things to do whenever you visit Facebook.

   6. Less Status, Photo updates

If you keep posting status or photos or keep sharing something on your wall, will surely increase notifications and you always will addict to see what your friends are commenting about your photo, status or share. Hence put only important updates on your wall and stop being Facebook addict.

   7. Turn off Chat

If you turn your chat On for your Facebook account, you might get lots of chat messages from friends specially when you are having internet data package on your mobile and which keeps you online always. In such cases, you can turn off your Facebook chat which will reduce messages in your Facebook inbox and keep you free for other work than Facebook.
   8. Funny but working Ideas to stop Facebook Addiction

    You can have boy friend or girl friend to spend time with (ONLY FOR NON MARRIED)
    Get into some work which will keep you engaged with heavy work load
    Have nice books to read at your library
    Spend more time with your wife and Kids

So, these were the Best 8 tips to stop Facebook addiction IF you have. But it’s always good to spend quality time with social networking sites and use them for productive purpose and not just for wasting time.

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