Other addictions !!!!
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Originally Posted by Nonsensical 
Facebook: Where everyone knows my name and face, but no one knows my story. Sober Recovery: Where everyone knows my story, but no one knows my name or face. 
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Originally Posted by EndGameNYC
If there is a God, and if there is a Heaven, some of us will be met at the Pearly Gates with, "Sorry, I saw your Facebook page."
Really really wish I had gotten sober before creating a Facebook account. I basically specialised in only posting mortifying drivel on there while drunk.
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Originally Posted by TroubledJoe
Aye, pretty sure I'm one of those people 
Really really wish I had gotten sober before creating a Facebook account. I basically specialised in only posting mortifying drivel on there while drunk.
Really really wish I had gotten sober before creating a Facebook account. I basically specialised in only posting mortifying drivel on there while drunk.
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Advertising and marketing agencies use FB "likes" and shares in a "Big Brother" fashion to see what is trending to better promote/sell their goods. I rarely used FB but I am so happy to have quit my account last year. I don't want to be anybody's drone.
I'm becoming estranged from a friend both because she doesn't like that I no longer drink and that I am not on FB. She has a 1000+ "friends" and requests that we communicate via FB, rather than phone/email. How sad is that?
Yes, cross addictions are so common but can be dealt with in the same fashion as we address alcoholism. I concur with jdooner's recommendation of Gabor Mate's book In the realm of Hungry Ghosts. It was eye opening for me. I truly began to understand my addictive personality; it just made sense, psychologically and physiologically.
Good luck and keep on!
I'm becoming estranged from a friend both because she doesn't like that I no longer drink and that I am not on FB. She has a 1000+ "friends" and requests that we communicate via FB, rather than phone/email. How sad is that?
Yes, cross addictions are so common but can be dealt with in the same fashion as we address alcoholism. I concur with jdooner's recommendation of Gabor Mate's book In the realm of Hungry Ghosts. It was eye opening for me. I truly began to understand my addictive personality; it just made sense, psychologically and physiologically.
Good luck and keep on!
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