Results of the Facebook Fast

1. I was able to spend a LOT more time reading the Bible, Christian books, and praying.
2. I did more housework and did not let the dishes accumulate for longer than one day!
3. I really missed seeing what friends were up to and wanted to email a few of them when I realized I didn't even know their email addresses!!!

Moral of the story: It was REALLY hard but good. I learned that I need to limit myself not turn myself off from facebook because it can be a useful tool to connect with and encourage others.

It is my goal to be more purposeful in my facebooking. I already went through and deleted a lot of "quasi-friends." Sounds bad but I need to be building into a reasonable amount of people and I want those people to build into me. I learned in my psychology grad class that there are about 20 people in the world that you can truly have a close, intimate relationship with. Also, our brains max out at about 150 friends and acquaintances. Meaning: There are about 150 people that we could have a meaningful conversation with if we bumped into each other at the grocery store. There could be countless "quasi-friends" that we may see in a grocery store that cause us to turn down a random aisle to avoid an awkward encounter, yet we keep them as facebook friends just for the sake of knowing what they are doing in life.

So, how many real "friends" do you have on facebook?