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Li Li Wee

Li Li Wee

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Facebook was down a few minutes ago, just as I was about to reply to a comment on a layout I created .. it got me thinking, what if it was down for 24hours!!!!

Will I go :hissy:hissy crazy or lost? I communicate with my fellow scrappers through Facebook… Actually I secretly hope it's down for 24 hours.. then I would have no other choice but to stay away from social media or my mobile… are we so dependent on social media to ….. ?
 
It was kind of weird to just see the little spinning thing and nothing happening! Perhaps the Digi Scrap Parade broke FB today with all the traffic!
 
staciahall said:
It was kind of weird to just see the little spinning thing and nothing happening! Perhaps the Digi Scrap Parade broke FB today with all the traffic!
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Mine had an error message… I panicked for a few minutes as I was wondering if it's my internet connection...
 
It's kind of funny... this spring I stepped back and realized how much time it took me to "check in" on Facebook each day and I decided to just quit checking in. I haven't been on very much this summer at all and I am amazed at how much of the information I know about my friends came from Facebook. My husband is constantly telling something that he learned from Facebook and is surprised that I don't know about stuff and keeps telling me that i need to check into Facebook once in awhile! LOL! I have been checking about once a week over the last two weeks or so. It's hard to find that happy balance!
 
It freaks me out when FB, forums or email goes down. I obsessively keep checking to see when it comes back on but....aside from my freakout....it is a good time to get some other things done :)
 
well, I think is utterly horrid to depend on anything..... (as someone who has overcome many addictions especially)
dont mean to sound horrible, now I read back, but the word dependency brings nightmare into my mind :(

And Juliette is right: we would find our way.....
Some of us around here are from the generation of Black & white TV, record players and very little as technology when growing up....
I educated Sarita without video games at home, she didn't have her own computer until she was almost 15 years old, not cel phone until she was 14 and because she needed to communicate with me....

The one thing that I keep thinking "oh my poor mother" is when I think , now Sarita is all the way in the other side of the world... I don't feel it as much because we skype at least 3 or 4 times a week.....
my mum didn't even have me calling once a month....calls from Europe to South America were so expensive...http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/
 
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I have gone a day without mobile but not the internet.. and the experience was ... QUIET!! PEACEFUL!! NO NOTIFICATION COMING IN!! I KINDA LOVE IT..

I went for dinner with a friend and was watching the next table , there were 5 friends coming together to have their meal.. The first thing they did was say Hi to each other and immediately after that they were on their mobile..They hardly talk to each other!! Sad :(
 
I've been trying to be on FB less - like just checking in once a day. I found I was wasting way too much time on there. It takes a bit to break the habit of constantly being on there, but we were just on vacation without internet for 4 days, and I didn't even think to check FB until a whole day after I was back!
 
Somtimes I hate the FB habit but I love being connected to the various people in my life. If it ever "broke" we would find some kind of other social media I'm sure...
 
renee82 said:
Somtimes I hate the FB habit but I love being connected to the various people in my life. If it ever "broke" we would find some kind of other social media I'm sure...
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I try my best not to check in so much on facebook.. but its tough since most of the designers I CT for are on FB..
 
misslovescraps said:
I try my best not to check in so much on facebook.. but its tough since most of the designers I CT for are on FB..
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that's true....
and for me, with poor concentration levels and the neurological problems, takes me long to process it all...plus both of us aren't native English speakers....

What Renee says is true too... I love the ease to be able to connect with all my family who is spread all over the world...even my almost 87 years old father is on Facebook LOL
When I started traveling and living abroad....it was very difficult to keep up with family & friends...these days, I feel closer to all my family as the social media gives something that email does not....
The ease to like a post, even if one has little time, at least tells the person you are there and know what is going on in their lives, so yes, I do have a bit of borderline relationship with FB too loving it sometimes, disliking the effects other times....

I went for dinner with a friend and was watching the next table , there were 5 friends coming together to have their meal.. The first thing they did was say Hi to each other and immediately after that they were on their mobile..They hardly talk to each other!! Sad
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Sad indeed.
I make a point of Sarita not bringing her mobile phone unless strictly necessary when we go out... they didn't allow the phones at camp, which I reckon is perfect ....
 
If FB and other social media would broke, I would definitely have a perfect household, haha!
 
I am checking in on my phone, but we have actually been without phone/tv/internet all afternoon & evening because of a service outage. It has been wonderfully quiet and commercial free - we watched two movies together :)
 
I have tried to cut back on how much I am on my social media sites. I was away for the last 3 1/2 days, out on a lake with no cell service, internet...nothing!!! And I have to say that I didn't miss it one bit...and even though I got back 6 hours ago...I still haven't checked it - and the world hasn't stopped turning. But, I did have to check in at the pad...this is the one place that I need to stay in contact with!!!
 
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