Now I won’t lie, I’m on it too. In fact, I have 4 tabs open right now…one facebook, one this blog, one for gMail and one for E-learning (a course management system…for UCF peeps it’s Webcourses@UCF, FSU: BlackBoard).
But really, I think it’s about time that we try and NOT bring our computers to the library. Impulse and addiction drive us to the fact that the first tab we open up is Facebook. I don’t even see why people bookmark Facebook; we can type the address just as fast as we click on the bookmark (bookmarks were meant for more complicated links anyway).
I remember on my old MacBook I used to have software that could block access to a webpage for a pre-determined time period…I forgot what it was called, something like SelfControl or some sort of compound name. But it was good…didn’t do the trick always (by that I mean I actually would be desperate enough to use my iPod Touch to access Facebook), but it did the trick sometimes.
Regardless…if people do it on their private computers at the library, I’ll laugh and say whatever because I’ll end up doing it too. But on a public computer? Come on, show some courtesy. Check your gMail, fine; check your Google Reader, fine…even check Facebook for a few notifications, fine. Just don’t use the annoyingly unstable Facebook chat while I’m trying to wait for you computer.
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