Detoxing Your Life, part deux

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It seems a bit silly that this warrants a mention, but in this crazy, technological era of ours, it does! Keeping internet tabs on people who used to be in your life/you wish were in your life/you hate/hate you is a really bad habit that I know a lot of people fall into.

I know because I used to do it. People I know do it. It was even done to me for a period, by a girl who totally ♥'d the boy I was seeing. It's actually pretty creepy when you're on the receiving end of the tab-keeping.

Spying on the Facebooks and Myspaces of your exes and their new girlfriends or your secret crush's current love interest is by and large a waste of your time. What do you actually come away from it with? Do you gain anything? At best you can smugly carry on the rest of your day with the knowledge that your ex-lover and his girlfriend had hit bumpy road. At worst, you'll see the love letters going to and fro, curse them for finding each other, resign yourself to cat-owning spinsterhood and spend your afternoon with a sunken heart.'

If you have one of these people in your online 'friends' list, definitely make sure they're not in you 'top friends' so you don't have a constant visual reminder of them. If you honest to God cannot control your fingers as they trawl through your contacts to find the person, delete them. Block them if this is still a hazard. Keeping tabs really doesn't serve you in any way. Detox your internet browsing, and you're one step closer to detoxing your life.