Maybe you have also been facing the following situation: You wanted to have a quick look on a Facebook-share a friend of yours posted. Then you saw this funny pic below, decided to have a look at the original authors profile and in the end you burned three hours instead of working on this important task you wanted to accomplish.
Even though I consider myself as a target-oriented person, this has happened to me more than once. The worst thing is: I do not even remember the stuff I wasted my time with!
I decided to put an end to this and found help in the Firefox-Addon “LeechBlock”.
In LeechBlock you can define timeframes for your wanderings on certain social media (or any other) pages. For example “only 5 minutes every three hours”. After this time the access to the page will be blocked.
“How is this gonna help? I can deactivate the addon if I want to read on!” you may think. While this is certainly true, there is an inhibition threshold to do that. It would be self-deception and nobody likes to be cheated – not even by oneself.
An interesting truth is that things often take exactly the amount of time which is available for it (I’ll blog about this another time). With LeechBlock I discovered that 5 minutes is perfectly enough time for Facebook! Eat this, Mr. Zuckerberg 😉