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Facebook making you sad?

It's a radical solution : stop using it.

Ultimately, if you want to take umbrage at someone, somewhere enjoying themselves, then you will get depressed, because there is always someone having a better time than you.

What is more important is developing a balanced feeling of self, and knowing and taking full responsibility for wherever you are in life. This means releasing feelings of envy and regret.

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stop using it.

Fair enough, but that's only Step 1. Step 2 is getting all sorts of websites to stop forcing everybody to use Facebook to use their functionality, and/or comment..

then stop using those

That's the point, I'd like to start using them. Well, not really, I usually move on... but still, that's how facebook manages to sometimes annoy me, without me coming anywhere close to it.

you can use those even if you don't check your fb stream every f# day

No thanks.. I'm fine with being tracked by Facebook while I use it (not that I really do that much), not so keen on it otherwise. It's just not the kind of habit I want to get into.

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