Time-Saver #3: Facebook
These time savers have limited my digital multitasking:
Considering my goals and priorities, most Facebook status updates are useless. The Facebook feed is littered with useless information. The problem is that Facebook has been designed so that checking useless feeds has become frequent and habitual. This causes distractions, multitasking and wasted time.
In fact, you may find my status updates to be useless. Here’s what you should do:
- Click “Hide” in the top right of my feed
- Then click “Hide Chris”
Of course, you can always click “Edit Options” at the bottom of the page to add friends’ activities back to the feed. You can also hide useless apps!
It’s a beautiful feature; I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook removes it. But in the meantime, I’m not wasting as much time on Facebook anymore!
Here’s Time-Saver #4
I subscribe to Facebook to spread my gospels: crunching for World Community Grid and other scientific projects using BOINC software, WQXR Classical Radio, WBGO Jazz Radio, Innova (American Composers Forum), etc. Those have “fan” subscriptions which puttheir news on my page. I copy parts of their text and then use the Facebook grabber to put them up as my own entries, with attribution, and hopefully a neat thumbnail to attract people.
In this way, I hopefully spread their message. I got this idea from the DARPA weather balloon contest.
The ret of Facebook is like Twitter. And I think that with the avergae person, Twitter is aptly named, for twits.