Social Media & Procrastination

So... I have two exams next week, both of which I have hardly any idea what I have to do. This means I really need to revise, right? Of course I need to revise but what do I find myself doing in the meantime? Flicking between Facebook, YouTube and BBC News over and over again. Why do I do this?

Clearly I am not the only person who does this... having so many of my University friends on Facebook I often see the odd status mentioning how they should be revising instead of being on the computer or at least spending an obscene amount of time on noneducational and pointless sites *cough* Facebook. So why do we do this?

I am no expert on the psychology as to why we do this and nor do I claim to be. But this procrastination is so frustrating... heck, I'm even writing a blog post when I should be revising! Surely there should be an easy way to prevent these distractions? I have tried deleting my Facebook account only to find that you can resume where you left off by simply logging back in again. All this deactivating processes does is set a visible flag to false so you don't appear on Facebook anymore. This is also quite scary if you ever intend to remove your internet footprint, but that is a whole different story I do not intend to dive into (maybe at a later stage).

I have also recently started up my own video games company, I often find myself procrastinating on these websites during work hours. I would love to hear some suggestions and solutions to these problems, as for now I better get back to revision!

Thanks for reading my first blog.