Why Facebook Can Be Dangerous to Your Health and Sanity

...Especially when breaking up with someone... Someone you spent many, many months confiding in, sharing thoughts and feelings... and some of them through facebook. If when you were together you would check their profile to see if they mentioned your date the night before or the trip you just got back from (and of course comment or "like" their status while wearing a smile on your face).

When you break up and decide to stay "friends" it's inappropiate politically to delete your former-flame from your facebook. And definitely not kosher when you have 10+ friends in common.

I happen to be at my computer 40+ hours a week. So sue me if I also end up updating my FB status several times throughout the day and also checking out the former's status too... It's the new form of stalking.

Here are signs you might have a problem:

1) You wake up listing in your head how you are going to update your status. This is not only when you first wake up though, you constantly think about it as a way to verify how "well" you're doing.

2) You WANT to update your status with things like "I used to really like Jon Bon Jovi. Now I think he's a douche." (which sucks because I really like JBJ, the former LOVED him, but I would get a kick out of what they thought of that plus other friends would comment that they agreed.) You END UP writing "Wow, Feeling like this week has gone by so fast." Not as much of a punch, right?

3) You accept every event that you are invited to because you want to look like you are busy.

4) You have to tell yourself you are going to check your FB only 5 times in a day. And then halfway though the day you say... okay, 10 times.

5) You constantly look up positive, happy, greater-than-anything quotes from famous authors, poets, and philosopher's in order to make it seem like you are doing well.

6) You post funny pictures of yourself with your friends having "the best of times" and put them in a new album entitled "Happiness" "Look at me now" or "THIS is the LIFE."

7) You ask your friends to comment on your status - popularity is always a plus in a break-up.

8) You Facebook flirt with people you have just "friended."

9) You make comments to mutual friends, on your status or put a link on your page about this or that great thing that you are planning on doing - that you know your ex would want to do too.

10) You force yourself to not do any of the above for an entire 3 day period - usually the weekend - and then at the end of it, write something like "This weekend was the best thing that ever happened to me ;)" The wink at the end is crucial because you could be winking at a friend... or maybe a new someone in your life...

So, what's the correct dosage of medicine to get over this and take back your sanity?

I don't know yet... do you?!