Oatmeal Joey Arnold (@JoeyArnoldVN)

What kind of rules do you give yourself on Facebook? . For me, I don't use Facebook on phones and I limit how long I scroll on my newsfeed to a few minutes a day or just long enough to comment and share a few things. I also link to things on my blog to Facebook just in case. I download photos, videos. I will share posts on my blog. It is valuable to save links on external sites because you may lose access to them in the future. So, I have things saved on separate notepad files or Word documents or by email or other things. It is critical to have backups that are not dependent to websites which you may lose access to someday without notice. You should be aware that losing access to your work online is more likely than losing access to data on your own computer due to computer crashes, viruses, bugs, etc. So, long story short, I save everything I write and I copy and paste what I write to multiple websites, files, different places, etc, etc, etc. Redundancy and repetition is your friend. . I will tell myself, "Ok, just one more thing, one more thing, one more post." So, my goal will be to comment or to share something that is worth sharing. I will tell myself to leave on a good note or a high note. . To use a basketball analogy, on Facebook, my intent is to making the game winning basket and then to exit. Once I make the basket, since you know I love basketball so much, I close all my Facebook tabs and I move on to other things. I get in and then I get out. . Facebook has endless feeds. Gone is the day of being able to get to the end of the Internet or to the end of web pages. Facebook is designed to drive humans insane, depressed, OCD, and the list goes on and on. People who are aware of this is ahead of the curve. The problem is mostly in the general public who is unaware or worse denies it with every fiber of their oatmeal goodness. . So, the getting in and getting out philosophy is chicken soup for the soul, it is the only path that can keep people sane in the mist of the intellectual dark ages which we currently live in.