Why I Want to Quit Facebook (but haven't quite yet)

Okay, I'm going to be real honest here: I kind of hate facebook. I sign in lately and feel like a lot of it is a barrage of political fervor, weird little videos, and the occasional personal post (though often these are by friends who post these personal thoughts a whole lot...). It's these last bits that I enjoy the most, and sometimes I find myself laughing at other things I come across, but I also am royally annoyed on a pretty regular basis. And, to be real honest, it's a super time-suck. I waste too much time there and even though I try to limit myself as much as possible, it draws me back all too often.

So, I have my reasons I'd love to quit the site: my blood pressure, seeing too much of the idiocy that is found in my country, and he fact that it's often wasted time.

Yet I stay on the site for a few reasons: I have real-life friends on there who I enjoy seeing what they're up to from time to time. There are some people whose opinions on politics/current events are close to my own and I enjoy seeing what they have to say. But most of all I stay because of the pages I run, both for my books and for my department at work. Both of these require monitoring and I am always trawling for more interesting posts. So many of my facebook visits start with: "I need to post on this page today, so let's see if anyone has something cool I could share over onto it"...and then I find myself mindlessly scrolling through posts :)

I'm not proud of it, but I am pretty addicted to it. The bad kind of addiction, the one that I wish I could quit but seem to be too roped into to see a way out. The site that I do enjoy is Instagram, where I love seeing other people's amazing photography and the occasional funny post. It feels way more relaxing and enjoyable if I want to scroll through something.

So, I'm curious, what are your thoughts on facebook? Have you quit? What keeps you going back?