Convince Your Friends!

Hello, reader! I'm guessing that you're enlightened enough to have signed up for Facebook-Free Friday. Congratulations! However, some of your friends might not be as fortunate.  If that's the case, here are some ways to convince your classmates, siblings, and homies to RSVP.

1. Bribery. Everyone likes chocolate cupcakes, don't they? And if someone shuns sugar for health reasons, a dollar bill will seem equally sweet.

Best recommended for: Avid chefs, those with deep pockets.

2. Coercion. Now's the time to put your annoying younger sibling, your supply of portable midget Mafia goons, or your stash of mind-controlling serum to good use!

Best recommended for: Junior mafiosi, budding mad scientists, or anyone with a really annoying younger sibling.

3. Spreading the word! How will your friends sign up for Facebook-Free Friday if they don't even know it exists? Text them, drop a note into their lockers, leave long, rambling messages on their cellphones, or write messages in chalk on your driveways. Even easier: go to our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178217255528515 - yes, we appreciate the irony-) and invite everyone on your friends list. See? Mischief managed, and you didn't even have to leave your chair!

While this list may have been helpful, there are many more methods that you could try.  How will you get your friends to sign up for Facebook-Free Friday? Or have you already tried? Share your stories and tips in the comments! 

15 Things To Do Instead of Going On Facebook

I've noticed that many of my friends don't know what they would possibly do without Facebook to fill their time. With that in mind, I've compiled this helpful list!

1. Blast some music and dance around your room.
2. Buy string and beads. Make a necklace.
3. Cook something you've never eaten before.
4. Teach yourself a new skill, such as juggling or insulting people in Swedish.
5. Teach something you know to someone else.
6. Take a walk around your neighborhood. Say hello to a neighbor to whom you've never spoken.
7. Do volunteer work, or raise money for a favorite charity.
8. Dig out your Halloween costume and go trick-or-treating; alternatively, go around wearing your Halloween costume and give candy to everyone you meet.
9. Play a board game (e.g., Monopoly.) Invent your own rules.
10. Write a song… or a poem… or a short story… or a petition.
11. Take a book out at your local library. Read it. (Don't worry, no one's grading you on your reading comprehension, and you won't have to take notes.)
12. Remember recess? Grab some friends and play a few rounds of old-fashioned Capture The Flag.
13. Decorate all your notebooks and binders with stickers.
14. Write a letter to a random person from the phone book/ a friend you haven't hung out with in a while/a relative who lives far away/the editor of a local newspaper/your congressman/the President/Santa Claus. Doodle on the envelope.
15. Invent- or learn- a new word. Use it as much as possible.

How do you plan to spend your Facebook-Free Friday? Feel free to share your ideas in the comments!