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Amberzlynnc
Member

since 2010-08-24

Posts 229
New Jersey

0 posted 2011-02-18 01:19 AM

Sleep.

Sleep.

12:18 am. I’ll sleep soon.

Log into my Facebook.
Read my notifications.
Check my messages.
Scroll up and down that hardly-changing newsfeed 107 times.
Pretend to care about “what’s up” with my online acquaintances.
12:35 am. I pull myself out of the internet addiction that most of us are sucked into.

Whoops.

12:37 am. That familiar “bloop” of an Instant Message has sounded.
Oh look. A message from a guy that attended the same elementary school.
I have not seen nor spoken to him since then.
He comments on the pleasantness of my anatomy above my waist and below my neck.
He signs off. I creep on his page.
It happens.

12:45 am. I’ll sleep soon.

Move from my couch.
Get in my bed.
Cover myself in blankets and
Set my laptop by my side.
I check for new notifications- Just one last time.

12:49 am. Four new notifications.

“Two other people also commented on Joe’s status.”
I had to look.
...Eh, whatever. Next.
Jess liked my comment, “NERD.”
I chuckle. I’m funny like that.
Next.
Curt commented on his status in reply to my earlier comment.
I reply again.
He replies again.
He IM’s me. We chat.

Oh yeah, I still have one notification.
Oh, it’s gone now.
Another Facebook glitch.
What else is new.

Curt says goodnight.
12:58 am. I say goodnight back.

Oh no!
Just remembered I never replied to that message I received earlier.
That really important one
That one that I was putting off responding to.
I type.
I think.
I re-read.
I revise.
I re-read again.
I hit send.

1:21 am. Let me just check this notification..
“Alex liked your photo 8 minutes ago.”
Aw. How sweet.

1:22 am. Time for sleep.

Sleep…
yes, sleep.
I fall asleep.

4:37 am. Awoken by a text notification.
“You have been poked on Facebook by Greg.”

Dangit.
I’m awake. I log on.
Instantly I hear that familiar “bloop”.
It’s my deployed, soldier ex-boyfriend.
4:40 am, my time. 2:20 pm, his time.
His message reads, “Why are you awake?”

I sigh to myself and simply reply;
“It’s a long story..

But these insomnia-inducing nights are getting old.
I think I’m deactivating my Facebook.”

4:52 am. Goodnight.

*Amber

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

1 posted 2011-02-18 02:29 AM

Yeah, Facebook is taking over the world! I don't check mine very often, afraid of getting sucked into the addiction. LOL
Kat >^..^<

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-02-18 09:10 AM

Hah! I'm not that bad about my Facebook site, but I can see how it could happen.

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2011-02-18 09:30 AM

Smiling. Was your face on your keyboard this morning?

Cute entries.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

4 posted 2011-02-18 06:36 PM

Been there done that a long time ago.  This could be me, and one of the reasons I don't do facebook.  Now I pretty much swim in the blue sea, check my email, my bank acct. google for whatever reason, and that's about it.  Oh yea, I get more sleep than I used to, too.

I really enjoyed your poem, I think I see my kids in the mix, login in one more time, probably after midnight.

Love this snap shot, I'm thinking it's pretty life like.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2011-02-19 12:22 PM

I can't stand Facebook. I've deleted my account over ten times but always came back

LOL

Amberzlynnc
Member

since 2010-08-24

Posts 229
New Jersey

6 posted 2011-02-19 01:14 PM

Haha. Thanks for the feedback everyone. And this was a very true story! :/

Nareena
Member

since 2011-02-17

Posts 51
BC, Canada

7 posted 2011-02-19 08:51 PM

haha I've done that more than once. I finally changed my mobile settings so that it doesn't text me between 9pm & 9am. I'm glad facebook didn't exist when I was in high school hehe

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

8 posted 2011-02-20 06:51 PM

You made me laugh. One word of advice - Don't talk on the phone in the bathroom and dont' take your lap top to bed.

Love this.
Alison

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