facebook ruins my life

The chat feature was not working right on my Facebook until an hour ago. I don't know when it stopped working, but it definitely did not work any in January. Before it stopped working, I communicated through chat pretty regularly so it is really funny that i didn't notice it wasn't working until tonight, but it was kind of sneaky. I could see everyone who was online, but when I clicked on someone to talk to them, it said they were offline. I thought it was just coincidence that when I decided to message someone, they immediately went offline. It wasn't until tonight that I decided there must be a problem. I clicked on everyone who was online, and they all had apparently gone offline as soon as I clicked on them. I googled my issue, and it turned out that others had the same problem and that another part of it was that other people couldn't see that they were online.

It did affect my life. I've been living at home since graduation and don't see much of anyone besides my family. This made me want to talk to my friends who don't live here even more (I don't like talking on the phone very much). I found myself making comments like: "I haven't talked to anyone in days" and "I feel so disconnected from the world." At one point I got a text asking if I was alive. I was thinking: "Of course I am, but why do you go offline every time I try to talk to you."

I also wondered why no one ever initiated conversation with me. I would see people online that I hadn't talked to in a while, and I hoped they were curious about what I had been up to, but no messages ever popped up. I also wondered if the people I had repeatedly tried to talk to were just signing out as soon as I tried to talk to them, because they hated me for some unknown reason.

It might even explain why I had a long conversation with a guy on a free dating site who was looking for a girl to join him and his wife in fun night time activities. I mean, I needed to instant message with somebody.

The effects of this mistake may have gone even deeper. I wonder if now that I've fixed the problem, my life will take off in a positive direction. I'll let you know.