Deactivating my facebook?

In the summertime especially, I'll think to myself "I have nothing to do, I'm so bored, I'm so lazy, what do I do?" Well, often times I find myself on Facebook, stalking people I went to high school and college with. I'll check so often throughout the day with no updates, it gets boring.

Also, Facebook is a prime place for my hatred of my "friends" to flourish; it's a wonderful site to snoop around and find out things about other people you normally wouldn't have found out. I want to deactivate my Facebook, but the stalker in me can't seem to do it. I will, however, try and cut down how much time I spend on the social networking site. It's not healthy, and everyone I want to see, I have their phone numbers so I can contact them like that. It's not going to be easy to implement that, but the change will be healthy and good for me. I'm so dependent on my laptop that a few minutes away is such a hard thing to do. This past year, I became VERY dependent on technology and that needs to go down.

A change I've already tried (and it's been successful so far!) is to stop bringing my cell phone on daily walks that I go on. Right now, my phone is charging in a corner in my mom's office, and I haven't felt the overwhelming urge to look at it (I won't lie, there is an urge to check it right now but not as strong as it would have probably been before-I probably wouldn't even have put it across the office, hidden).

Right now, I do feel the need to check my Facebook. The thing is I know that I don't have any notifications, but I still NEED to check it. I will try my very hardest to resist and check my Facebook at a later time in the day.

The problem is that my dependency on sites like these has become so strong, that I find myself have little meaning when I'm not on them. I don't know what to do with myself! I get off my laptop, try and read a book, only to come back 30 minutes later. It's a feeling of lost purpose without my laptop. This is going to be quite a challenge, but I need to better myself.

I'm trying everything in the book to be happy again....

-GJW