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Day 43: Top 10 Reasons YOU Need Social Networking Rehab
(This post was inspired by Laura Fitton (@pistachio) and Lorri Randle (@mediajoltz) while we were Tweeting things up together in Ontario at the PNME. If you can say "YES" to four or more of the items...
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Day 61: A Seesmic Shift... or a Social Networking Speedball?
What's an addict to do? It has been 61 days since I started the "program" and while I have experienced fleeting moments of social networking sobriety (mostly when asleep, or confined to an aircraft...
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Day 72: The Perils of Twitter and Social Networking - A Public Service...
In order to earn some merit points toward some time on-line here at the INVITATIONS Recovery Facility, I volunteered for a study on some of the Medical Side Effects of Social Networking Addiction. The...
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Day 107: Get Your INVITATION! The Steps to Social Networking Rehab
Clearly my rehabilitation is not going well. 28 days has turned into 107 and I am still battling my Social Networking Addiction. The good news is that I am not alone. The beds at INVITATIONS are full,...
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Day 127: Breakfast of ChamPEAons!
As my 28 days of Social Networking Rehab have become 127, it is clear that 12 steps is a much greater distance than it sounds like. In the old days, a guy would walk a mile for a Camel. Today, I'd walk...
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Day 113: Twitter Withdrawal? Register for help here!
Last Friday may have been the day that lives in Infamy, but today is the day that may cause serious pain for a lot of otherwise happy Twittizens. Why? As noted in the screenshot above, Twitter will be...
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Day 191: 10 Ways To Handle Quitting Twitter Cold Turkey!
Whether your doctor has told you to cut out Social Networking, or you are just faced with feeling down because (once again) Twitter is down, here are some things you can do to satisfy your urges while...
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Day 233: Bored at Rehab so I created a NEW TWITTER GAME!
While passing the time in Twitter Rehab here at INVITATIONS I was daydreaming about Twitter and came up with an idea for a new game (and yet another way to feed my addiction -- after all, the most...
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Day 235: Twitter Addiction is a UNIVERSAL Problem!
I recently attended a "Tweet-Up" (which is a fancy way of saying a "Twitterholics Anonymous" meeting). Typically I attend as many such gatherings as I can in order to recruit those in need of rehab. At...
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Day 303: A Twitter Addicts' Guide To Social Media Services
Call me Ishmael...With all the WHALE images I have seen on Twitter lately, I can't help but recall MOBY DICK... And like Captain Ahab, there are times when I can't help wanting to exact revenge and...
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Day 342: Really Quitting Twitter
That's it. I have been in and out of the INVITATIONS Social Networking Rehab facility for nearly a year and I have yet to be able to beat this addiction. Group therapy, medication, sensory deprivation...
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Day 366: The Year In Rehab Review
"They tried to make me go to Rehab, I said "No, No, No..." -- Amy Winehouse"They said I needed Twitter Rehab, I said "Yes, Yes, Yes!" -- Jeffrey SassIt has been a full year since I admitted myself to...
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Day 419: Twittolympics! Let The Games Begin!
During the summer, while the rest of you were vacationing, I was spending most of my time in Twitter Rehab here at INVITATIONS. During my most painful bouts of Twitter withdrawal, I had nothing much to...
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Day 484: Put Your Twitter Addiction To Good Use!
A Public Service Announcement:For more information about @wellwishes, @tipjoy and how you can contribute $2.00 and feed your Twitter addiction at the same time, please visit Pistachio...
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Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!
As Twitter has hit the mainstream, everyone from Actors such as Ashton Kutcher to TV personalities with only first names such as Oprah and Ellen to Politicians such as the Governator and his lovely...
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Doctors Announce First Successful Human FACEBOOK Transplant
(Palo Alto, California) May 25, 2009. A team of doctors and surgeons from the nation's leading medical institutions have joined forces to perform the world's first human Facebook transplant, it was...
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The 7 Phases Of Twitter: A Chronology
If you are reading this, there is a good chance you, too, are addicted to Twitter. Why else would you be visiting something called Social Networking Rehab? If you came here because of a link in a...
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Feed Your Addiction With A Phoney Twitter
Virtually all of the Twitter Addicts we treat here at INVITATIONS have a mobile phone and use their phones to check in with Twitter. Ideally, we would like to therefore confiscate their phones upon...
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140 Small Steps For Man (And A Giant Leap For Social Networking Rehab)
As announced here, early in 2010 we will be publishing an eBook of "140 Steps To Cure Your Twitter (and Social Networking) Addiction" and we are looking for YOU to help us compile the 140 best steps...
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140 Steps To Cure Your Social Networking Addiction
12 steps are clearly not enough to address the ravages of Social Networking Addiction. With mobile phones placing Twitter and Facebook in our pockets, and everyone we ever associated with from grade...
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A Twitter Addict Takes The First Step...
I'm Jeff an I'm an addict. My drug of choice? Real-time data and the devices I use to suck in constant digital streams of data like so many virtual intravenous drips in the digital tubes that feed my...
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Top 10 Reasons I Am STILL Addicted To Twitter (and Social Networking)
Hello, my name is Jeff and lo and behold, I am still an addict...It has been a while since I've written here. Mostly because I thought I was cured. I thought I had kicked the habit. I thought I was...
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May We Have The Twitter Addiction Envelope Please: And the Weiner Is...
As evidenced by the oft re-tweeted member of New York's own member of Congress, @RepWeiner, there is no question that Twitter Addiction is on the rise (as was said member). Try as we might, we can no...
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Social Media Addiction Update: Google + and MySpace Minus
Most businesses rely on supply and demand, and the Social Networking Rehab business is no different. Fortunately, with the continued growth of Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, there has...
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Acupuncturist Takes Pinterest Too Far
(Pittsburgh, Pinsylvania) February 20, 2012. A 47 year-old Pinsylvania man has been arrested for aggravated assault after pinning 134 photographs to the body of an unsuspecting, but very patient,...
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