There are two types of people in this world. People who go to the fridge, open it, realize nothing is there and then repeat that action several times throughout the day with the same results and then there’s the people who have a grasp on their lives. If you are like me then you open the fridge, a lot, and Facebook is the fridge of our generation. We open up our page, realize nothing is there and then repeat that same act several times throughout the day or you have a healthy existence and you just don’t. Let’s start calling checking Facebook “looking in the fridge” because we get the same amount of satisfaction when we do it. That empty feeling that we force upon ourselves when we realize there is never anything there and what if there was something there? Then you indulge yourself with it, and when you are done you have either had far too much or just enough to want to come back a few minutes later to repeat the cycle. So for those of you out there trying to get away from “opening the fridge” here is a few tips on how to stop yourself.

• Get rid of your fridge. When I keep the metaphor going it sounds weird but in reality I mean you should delete your Facebook. Now for some of you this is a difficult task because your whole life is your Facebook and my rule of thumb is that if you don’t know if you could give up your Facebook or not then you have a problem that can only be fixed with getting actual friends and open up the blinds because you might not have had sun in a few weeks.
• Go hang out with your friends. The best way to stop looking into your fridge is to just go out there and get something to eat. (I know what you’re thinking, lots of fridge and food metaphors, just bare with me.) Get outside and remember that just because its social media doesn’t mean you are being social. Go to a movie, go bowling, go to dinner do anything that involves you getting out of the house for a while.
• GET OFF YOUR PHONE!!! Everywhere we go someone or everyone in the friend group is on their phone, and I get it we all want to know if Kim Kardashian is going to have another kid with a direction as their name or how many likes you got with the cleavage pic you posted from “vacation,” but you’re with your friends so you can put that off for a little while right? I don’t want to sound old but what happened to talking with people face to face? Back in my day… okay that does sound hella old. Anyways get off your phone!

Now will these tips completely fix the problem? No. But they might help, and chances are I will go to my fridge tonight open it, get disappointed, close it and repeat. Then this blog will remind me about Facebook and I will “open the fridge,” get disappointed close it and repeat. I might have a problem.

-Tim Fluga