THE PROBLEM

I’ve recently found myself checking the following websites an unhealthy amount.

THE IDEA

Every time you open a new tab to check out one of the following websites, stop. Get up from your computer and do the exercise associated with the site you were going to visit. After you complete the exercise, you can reward yourself by going to the website.

1. I already have a girlfriend and/or boyfriend, why would I bother working out?

Endorphins! They’re like free drugs.

2. Can I do this at work?

Yes!

3. Can I substitute different websites?

Absolutely.

Only two weeks ago I wrote that Facebook was dominating the internet(and Twitter) based on the latest Hitwise statistics. Two weeks later Compete is showing a similar trend with Facebook growing 3 percent domestically over the past month while Twitter drops by around 2 percent. As I mentioned last month though, direct traffic to the Twitter.com site may not be a good indicator of activity on the site.

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Are you addicted to Facebook? It starts of with a simple exploration of your friends on the site and suddently you are logging on 10 times a day to see if any of your friends have made updates to their profile, changed their relationship status or have posted new videos or articles. Suddnely you are glued to your computer monitor and the only thing on the screen is Facebook. So maybe your addiction isn’t that bad but apparently enough people are addicted that wikiHow has published an article entitled “How to Quit Facebook.” WikiHow suggests a 6-step solution:

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In a study of 308 Facebook users, researchers discovered that people who are more prone to jealousy will find Facebook just reinforces that jealousy.

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