It looks like Facebook can cause people to have sleeping problems.
Not only does looking out computer monitors late at night effect the quality of your sleep but it looks like people are being disturbed while sleeping.
Apparently people are being woken in the middle of the night by alerts on their mobile phone from Facebook. It is well known that having your sleep interrupted can leave you tired and unrefreshed in the morning.
What I can’t get my head around is who and why would people allow themselves to be disturbed by messages on Facebook in the middle of the night? What can be so important about their social life that it can’t wait until the morning?
For me this is very puzzling behaviour I know I’m a bit of a dinosaur at over 50 years old but I am technically savvy. I’ve worked in Information Technology for over 25 years and I love my gadgets. I have a Facebook account multiple Twitter accounts and I use social media as much as the next person.
But I draw the line to being disturbed while I sleep. My mobile phone is switched off when I go to bed and it isn’t the first thing that I switch on in the morning. Being social is obviously a good thing but when it starts to take over your life and affects your normal daily activities it’s something that needs to be looked at.
In my day if I wanted to socialise I got off my butt and would go out for a meal with my friends or go for a few drinks at my local bar. It looks like the days of meeting people face-to-face have almost passed when many would prefer to sit in front of the computer and socialise than go out.
How sad is that?
Bottom line is turn off your computer a couple of hours before going to bed and remember to switch off your mobile phone nothing is so important that it won’t wait until the morning 
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