Facebook offers a seemingly unlimited  mixture of playful applications. You may find yourself building a family tree, caught up in a war or feeding farm animals!

This can become addictive and before you know it, your entire day has gone by and you have not accomplished one useful thing!

To avoid the time sink on Facebook here are five suggestions:

• schedule your social media time each day and stick to it – set an alarm to go off when your time is up. You can download many alarm applications for your desktop.
• optimize your Facebook profile to zone in on your favorite places on Facebook – news feeds for quick glancing then create lists of friends to check in on them as a group. (see below how to set up friend lists)
  

  How to create a Friend List on Facebook

• set up a separate folder in your email account and create rules to direct them to that folder,  then set aside time to review and respond from within your email account (see how to send your Facebook notifications to your email below)
  

  How to manage email notifications on Facebook

• “unfriend” or block ‘friends” that suck up too much of your time with posts that never interest you.
  

  How to remove or block someone on Facebook

• block applications in which you have no interest (see how to block applications below)

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  How to block an application on Facebook

Remember, be sure to limit your time on Facebook and, if you are using Facevook for business, be sure to distinguish between business and personal time.

Cheers!