{"id":548,"date":"2014-10-11T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2014-10-11T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T18:18:20","slug":"procrastination-and-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Procrastination and Social Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would love to use a tool to monitor the time I waste looking through social networking websites, Facebook or twitter. I can sit at my machine and seem to do nothing but refresh the page and look at crap&#8230;.. then I wonder why I get nothing done.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried quitting several times but to be honest it is like a double edged sword, Facebook is a site that has wasted so much of my time but on the same vein helps me keep in contact with some people that I might not have if I didn&#8217;t use the site. I know some people will say if you can&#8217;t keep in contact unless you have Facebook then you cant be true friends, but that is a load of rubbish. We live in an age where communication is quick and easy and although I don&#8217;t ring people much it doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t want to keep those lines of communication open.<\/p>\n<p>I see it as a tool to share my life and keep in contact with quite a few people, I just wish I could stop wasting so much time on there.<\/p>\n<p>NaNo 14 is fast approaching and I am deep in planning mode for my first book, now is the time to kick-start my writing career, I have been given a boost by editing a friends book and seeing it in print, this is something I would love to have done for myself, I can see it now&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would love to use a tool to monitor the time I waste looking through social networking websites, Facebook or twitter. I can sit at my machine and seem to do nothing but refresh the page and look at crap&#8230;.. then I wonder why I get nothing done. I have tried quitting several times but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,2],"tags":[5,81,10,79,80,4],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-life","category-writing","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-nano-2","tag-nanowrimo-2014","tag-social-netowrk","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}